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Herman Melville Quotes
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. - Herman Melville Quotes
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. - Herman Melville Quotes
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. - Herman Melville Quotes
Art is the objectification of feeling. - Herman Melville Quotes
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. - Herman Melville Quotes
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. - Herman Melville Quotes
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. - Herman Melville Quotes
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. - Herman Melville Quotes
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. - Herman Melville Quotes
He piled upon the whales white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot hearts shell upon it. - Herman Melville Quotes
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. - Herman Melville Quotes
Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. - Herman Melville Quotes
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. - Herman Melville Quotes
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. - Herman Melville Quotes
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least. - Herman Melville Quotes
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. - Herman Melville Quotes
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? - Herman Melville Quotes
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. - Herman Melville Quotes
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. - Herman Melville Quotes
It is not down in any map; true places never are. - Herman Melville Quotes
Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow. - Herman Melville Quotes
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. - Herman Melville Quotes
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. - Herman Melville Quotes
Lifes a voyage thats homeward bound. - Herman Melville Quotes
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. - Herman Melville Quotes
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. - Herman Melville Quotes
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. - Herman Melville Quotes
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. - Herman Melville Quotes
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. - Herman Melville Quotes
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobodys expense but his own. - Herman Melville Quotes
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