Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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