Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhat is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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