No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
HERMAN MELVILLETo produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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 a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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