The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Only the man who says no is free
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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