We cannot live for ourselves alone.
HERMAN MELVILLENo philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Whatever my fate, 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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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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