Herman Melville Short Quotes

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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

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A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.

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You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.

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Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!

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A laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer.

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On nights when meteors play And light the breakers dance...

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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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Thou art as a lion of the waters and as a dragon of the sea.

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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

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He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

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Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

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All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

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That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.

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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

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In our youth is our strength; in our inexperience, our wisdom.

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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

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To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

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Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.

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Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

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Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.

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The terrors of truth and dart of death
To faith alike are vain.

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Nature is good Queen Bess; but who's responsible for the cholera?

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One would like to know, what were foes made for except to be used?

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Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

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Nature is an immaculate virgin, forever standing unrobed before us.

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Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

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It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.

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

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