Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
HERMAN MELVILLETruth is in things, and not in words.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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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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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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