Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
HERMAN MELVILLEIgnorance is the parent of fear.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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