Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
HERMAN MELVILLE
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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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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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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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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