Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEHeaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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