There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
HERMAN MELVILLETis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Only the man who says no is free
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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