There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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 thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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