I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
HERMAN MELVILLEHeaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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