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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4932/">Quotes by <em>Melville, Herman</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, essayist, and poet. During his lifetime his early novels were popular, but his popularity declined later in his life. By the time of his death he had nearly been forgotten, but his masterpiece, Moby-Dick, was "rediscovered." · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"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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"He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great."

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"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."

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"There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man."

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"In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods."

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"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."

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"I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling."

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"Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God."

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"We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us."

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"When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without -- oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!"

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