"Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the……" — Herman Melville
"Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands."
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Herman Melville
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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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Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that…
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If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams,…
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You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.
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I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got…
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches…
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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
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Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun,…
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If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be…
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As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention,…
— William Shakespeare
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Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and…
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size…
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