Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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