Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
HERMAN MELVILLETo produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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