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.
HERMAN MELVILLEOld age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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