There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
HERMAN MELVILLEMan is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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You cannot hide the soul.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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