"There is no quality in this world that……" — Herman Melville
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself."
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285 Quotes by Herman Melville
Herman Melville has 285 quotes on this site.
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any…
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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…
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter…
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He…
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a…
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He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies…
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed…
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If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what…
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical…
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In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult…
— John O'Donohue
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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most…
— Mark Twain
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The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and…
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The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being…
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Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical…
— Frances M. Young
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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable…
— Philip Zimbardo
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The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
— Carl Jung
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