Herman Melville Quotes and Quotation

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• Genius all over the world stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole world round.
  • Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)

• Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised.
  • White Jacket (1850)

• Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilize civilization and christianize Christendom?
  • White Jacket (1850)

• Pierre saw the everlasting elusiveness of Truth; the universal lurking insincerity of even the greatest and purest written thoughts. Like knavish cards, the leaves of all great books were covertly packed. He was but packing one set the more.... So that there was nothing he more purned than his own aspirations; nothing he more abhorred than the loftiest part of himself.
  • Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852)

• Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!
  • Billy Budd, the Sailor

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• A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

• A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

• From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

• God's one and only voice is silence.

• He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great.

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

• Say what poets will. Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.

• 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 causes, and they come back to us as effects.

• Where does the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blending enter into the other. So with sanity and insanity.

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