All Herman Melville Quotes
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
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There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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.
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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.
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