Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
HERMAN MELVILLEAll 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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