It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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