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.
HERMAN MELVILLEA man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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