A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
HERMAN MELVILLEHope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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