Herman Melville Quotes
Quotes
Authors & Writers“A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”
Herman MelvilleQuotes
Authors & Writers“Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blindingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.”
Herman MelvilleQuotes
Authors & Writers“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
Herman MelvilleQuotes
Authors & Writers“ The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. ”
Herman MelvilleQuotes
Authors & Writers“ I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. ”
Herman MelvilleQuotes
Authors & Writers“ Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? ”
Herman MelvilleQuotes
Authors & Writers“ A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. ”
Herman MelvilleQuotes
Authors & Writers“ Truth is in things, and not in words. ”
Herman MelvilleQuotes
Authors & Writers“ I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, Ill go to it laughing. ”
Herman MelvilleQuotes
Authors & Writers“ Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges. ”
Herman MelvilleQuotes
Authors & Writers“ Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. ”
Herman MelvilleQuotes
Authors & Writers“ Lifes a voyage thats homeward bound. ”
Herman MelvilleQuotes
Authors & Writers“ I try all things, I achieve what I can. ”
Herman MelvilleQuotes
Authors & Writers“ 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. ”
Herman MelvilleQuotes
Authors & Writers“ We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. ”
Herman MelvilleQuotes
Authors & Writers“ It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ”
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