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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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