There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
HERMAN MELVILLEI do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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