Herman Melville Quotes
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Book
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
America
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To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
Breath
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
Dignity
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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.
Blessing
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Comprehend
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
All
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too, the purest of…
April
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a…
American
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He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
Cannot Make
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have…
Adam
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
Draws
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Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?
Benefit
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
Inspirational
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If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will…
Atheism
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An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
Calm
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Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write,…
Ajar
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We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
Americans
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All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is the invisible laying…
All
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This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.
Certain
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