The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
HERMAN MELVILLEHonor lies in the mane of a horse.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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