Quotes about Herman Melville

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by...

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There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a...

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There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

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There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a...

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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order...

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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being...

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There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

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There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life...

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The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not...

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us...

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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man...

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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is...

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