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Herman Melville Quotes


An American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, becoming a bestseller), but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime. When he died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. 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.

Here are some famous quotes by Herman Melville. 

He who has never failed somewhere that man cannot be great.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

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He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

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From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.

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Heaven have mercy on us all--Presbyterians and Pagans alike--for we are all dreadfully cracked about the head and desperately in need of mending.