Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
HERMAN MELVILLEA book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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