To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
HERMAN MELVILLEMy body is but the lees of my better being.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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