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We die of too much life.

By Herman Melville

We die, because we live.

By Herman Melville

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

By Herman Melville

Though an unpleasant sort of person, and even a queer threatener withal, yet, if one meets him, one must get along with him as one can; for hi...

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'Tis no great valor to perish sword in hand, and bravado on lip; cased all in panoply complete. For even the alligator dies in his mail, and t...

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'Tis right to fight for freedom, whoever be the thrall.

By Herman Melville

This mortal air is one wide pestilence, that kills us all at last.

By Herman Melville

Through the port comes the moon-shine astray! It tips the guard's cutlass and silvers this nook;...

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These marbles, the works of the dreamers and idealists of old, live on, leading and pointing to good. They are the works of visionaries and dr...

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There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

By Herman Melville

There is no faith, and no stoicism, and no philosophy, that a mortal man can possibly evoke, which will stand the final test of a real impassi...

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There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political...

By Herman Melville

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 practica...

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The scythe that advances forever and never needs whetting.

By Herman Melville

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

By Herman Melville

The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and pol...

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The calm, the coolness, the silent grass-growing mood in which a man ought always to compose,—that, I fear, can seldom be mine. Dollars damn...

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The Cave of Jeremiah is in this part. In its lamentable recesses he composed his lamentable Lamentations.

By Herman Melville

That matches are made in heaven, may be, but my wife would have been just the wife for Peter the Great, or Peter Piper. How would she have set...

By Herman Melville

That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is...

By Herman Melville

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...

By Herman Melville

Oh! mock not the poniarded heart. The stabbed man knows the steel; prate not to him that it is only a ticking feather.

By Herman Melville

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

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Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.

By Herman Melville

Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too high; & so ...

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Juxtaposition marries men.

By Herman Melville

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads th...

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However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever...

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I am sleepy, and the oozy weeds about me twist.

By Herman Melville

Fathoms down, fathoms down, how I'll dream fast asleep.

By Herman Melville