Herman Melville Quotes and Sayings
- Name:
- Herman Melville (random)
- Books & Videos:
- Herman Melville Books & Videos
- Type:
- Novelist
- Nationality:
- American
- Birth Date / Year:
- August 1, 1819
- Death Date / Year:
- September 28, 1891
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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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Art is the objectification of feeling. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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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? Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is not down in any map; true places never are. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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Truth is in things, and not in words. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things. Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar? Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
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Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish? Herman Melville | Refcard PDF ↑
