Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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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