There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
HERMAN MELVILLETis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Only the man who says no is free
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