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Herman Melville

Read through the most famous quotes from Herman Melville




There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.


— Herman Melville


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There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.


— Herman Melville


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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.


— Herman Melville


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There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.


— Herman Melville


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There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.


— Herman Melville


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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.


— Herman Melville


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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.


— Herman Melville


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


— Herman Melville


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


— Herman Melville


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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?


— Herman Melville


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Did you know about Herman Melville?

At first his progress on Moby-Dick moved swiftly. In June he described the book to his English publiHerman Melviller as "a romance of adventure founded upon certain wild legends in the Southern Sperm Whale FiHerman Melvilleries" and promised it would be done by the fall. Melville also wrote Billy Budd White-Jacket Israel Potter Redburn Typee Omoo Pierre The Confidence-Man and many short stories including "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" and "Benito Cereno" and works of various genres.

In 1919 the unfiniHerman Melvilled manuscript for his novella Billy Budd was discovered by his first biographer. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition especially Moby-Dick which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. Herman Melville (August 1 1819 – September 28 1891) was an American novelist short story writer essayist and poet.

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