Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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