"Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing." — Herman Melville
"Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing."
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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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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
— Francis Bacon
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in…
— Honore de Balzac
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind…
— John Adams
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your…
— John Adams
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I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his…
— Alfred Adler
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time…
— Ingrid Bergman
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