Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
HERMAN MELVILLELife’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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