Herman Melville Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Herman Melville quotes and sayings page 4 (deceased novelist born on Aug 1, 1819). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 52 we have for him.
“Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.”
“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.”
“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.”
“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”
“The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.”
“There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.”
“There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.”
“Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?”
“There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.”
“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”
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