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Quotes of Herman Melville (Usa)1914 American Law Professor
Herman Melville Photo and Biography
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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. (death and dying)
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid. (censorship)
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. (patriotism)
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. (faith)
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. (failure)
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. (humankind)
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. (literature)
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. (leisure)
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us. (insensitivity)
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. (hope)
I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling. (human fellowship)
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. (madness)
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. (survival)
He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. (obstinacy)
But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. (originality)
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended. (philosophers and phi)
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. (speech)
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. (aid and assistance)
How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg -- a cozy, loving pair. (bed)
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects. (action)
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (age and aging)
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