Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
HERMAN MELVILLETo produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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