When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
HERMAN MELVILLENo philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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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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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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