My body is but the lees of my better being.
HERMAN MELVILLEReal strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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