There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
HERMAN MELVILLEA smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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