Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
HERMAN MELVILLEA whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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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.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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