I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
HERMAN MELVILLEHope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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