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"29 Herman Melville Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 1 August 1819. Died: 28 September 1891 | Novelist | Writer | Poet |

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Better To fail Originality Succeed
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

A smile Chosen vehicle Ambiguities
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

Better Sleep Sober cannibal Christian
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I try all things, I achieve what I can.

Try All things Achieve
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Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

Talk Blasphemy Man Insulted
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For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

Folly Beast Earth Madness
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Ignorance Parent Fear
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Love Sail Forbidden sea
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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Man thinks Mouthing Hard words Things
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Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Human madness Cunning Think
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

Think not Commandment Sleep You can
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

Real strength Never impairs Beauty
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
Produce Mighty book Theme
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I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

Have written Wicked book Lamb
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Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

Our soul Orphans Mothers die
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
Beneath Stars Universe
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

How elastic Prejudices Grow Bend
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Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

Happiness Deem World Misery hides
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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

World Shipmates Sin Pays
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

Past Textbook Tyrants Bible
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Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?

Devil Live forever Heard Dead
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In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

Truth Mature man Hair oil Medicinally
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You cannot hide the soul.

You Hide Soul
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

Man Youth upwards Conviction Easiest way
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

Path Fixed Soul Grooved
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There is all the different in the world between paying and being paid.

Different World Paying Being paid
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At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before

Length Fell asleep Volume Sound
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Art is the objectification of feeling

Art Objectification Feeling
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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.

Some persons World Better proof Wise
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Herman Melville Quotes & Sayings