A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
HERMAN MELVILLEI know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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