A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
HERMAN MELVILLEHe who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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