Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
HERMAN MELVILLEA smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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