Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
HERMAN MELVILLEI know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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