Quotes by Herman Melville

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings...

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There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for...

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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 some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

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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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