There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
HERMAN MELVILLEI am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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