American - Novelist | August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891
Art is the objectification of feeling.
Herman Melville
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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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.
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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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