A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
HERMAN MELVILLEHonor lies in the mane of a horse.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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There 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.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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