Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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