"Wag the world how it will, Leaves must…" — Herman Melville
"Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring."
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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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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
— Diane Ackerman
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
— Francis Bacon
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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
— Francis Bacon
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I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink…
— Erykah Badu
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of…
— Ansel Adams
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I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a…
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that…
— William Blake
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside…
— Michael Bloomberg
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After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal…
— Emily Blunt
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