Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
HERMAN MELVILLEMan is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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