The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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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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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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