I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
HERMAN MELVILLEA man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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