Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
HERMAN MELVILLEGenius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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