The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
HERMAN MELVILLETis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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