The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
HERMAN MELVILLEDream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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You cannot hide the soul.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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