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Thing Quotes by Herman Melville
- 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…
- One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own…
- Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing…
- And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real…
- Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
- It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way…
- Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any…
- To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
- A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in…
- It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
- Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler…
- A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.
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