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Herman Melville Quotes
«Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Friendship,
Truth
| Keywords:
at first, at first sight, sight
«It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
imitation, imitations, originality
«To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.»
«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.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Forgiveness,
Living
| Keywords:
Among the Living, causes, Cause of action, come back, connect, effects, fibers, running back, sympathetic, threads
«To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee»
«Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Hope
| Keywords:
attest, attested, attesting, attests, breaking, break loose, eternity, looser, looses, loosing, perishable, perishables, struggle
«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.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
incidentally, ostentatiously, premeditation, weaknesses
«Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?»