A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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