Quotes by Herman Melville

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she...

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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

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To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

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To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

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There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness,...

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There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep...

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