Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
HERMAN MELVILLEBetter 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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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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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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