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Things 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…
- And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for…
- Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt…
- What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the…
- There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty.
- Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.
- All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily…
- People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.
- A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
- Truth is in things, and not in words.
- I try all things, I achieve what I can.
- A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
- Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.…
- As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
- Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle