Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
HERMAN MELVILLEIf you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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