Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
HERMAN MELVILLEThe most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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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