Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
HERMAN MELVILLEReal strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Only the man who says no is free
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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