Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
HERMAN MELVILLEYet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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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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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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 not down in any map; true places never are.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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