61 Quotations by Herman Melville
- 21. He's a grand, ungodly, god-like man.
- 22. Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity ...
- 23. How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. ...
- 24. How wondrous familiar is a fool!
- 25. I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!
- 26. I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence ...
- 27. If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dre ...
- 28. If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
- 29. In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own go ...
- 30. In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Vir ...
- 31. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
- 32. Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence ...
- 33. Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon Go ...
- 34. Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, -- for it is a sign of strength to be we ...
- 35. Life is like a voyage that is homeward bound.
- 36. Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
- 37. Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter. To begin: there's Arie ...
- 38. Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may ...
- 39. Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with slouched hat and guilty eye, skul ...
- 40. Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticism ...
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