The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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