” There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. “
” Old age is always wakeful, as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. “
” There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man. “
” He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. “
” Toil is man’s allotment, toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. “
” A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. “
All 6 Herman Melville Quotes about Man in picture
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