A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
HERMAN MELVILLENature is nobody’s ally.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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