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.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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