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Time Quotes by Herman Melville
- We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
- This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.
- 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…
- Immortality is but ubiquity in time.
- In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.
- To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
- Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
- For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever…
- truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what…
- Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing…
- I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other…
- Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the…
- Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that…
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