Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
HERMAN MELVILLEA smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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