Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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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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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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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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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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