The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
HERMAN MELVILLEMan is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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