A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
HERMAN MELVILLEI am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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