Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
HERMAN MELVILLEAid my disillusionment, my friend!
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Only the man who says no is free
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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 worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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