The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
HERMAN MELVILLEFriendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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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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