You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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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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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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