You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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