Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
HERMAN MELVILLENo philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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