Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
HERMAN MELVILLEGenius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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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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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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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