To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
HERMAN MELVILLESee how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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