Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
HERMAN MELVILLEFaith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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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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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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