The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
HERMAN MELVILLEBetter be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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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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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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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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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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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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