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Letter "H" » 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
«Art is the objectification of feeling.»
«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?»
«Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.»
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