Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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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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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Better 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.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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