All Herman Melville Quotes
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
Herman Melville
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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Herman Melville
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There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
Herman Melville
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He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
Herman Melville
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Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
Herman Melville
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There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
Herman Melville
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
Herman Melville
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Herman Melville
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There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.
Herman Melville
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Herman Melville
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The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.
Herman Melville
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Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
Herman Melville
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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Herman Melville
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It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
Herman Melville
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