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.
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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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