The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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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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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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