Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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