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Best Quotes By Herman Melville, Top Famous Herman Melville Quotes About Herman Melville He was born on August 1, 1819 in New York City. His father name was Allan Melville and mother name was Maria Gansevoort Melville. His wife name was Elizabeth Shaw the couple had four children two sons Malcolm Melville and Stanwix Melville and two daughters Elizabeth Melville and Frances Melville.
Herman Melville Nationality: American Profession: Writer, Novelist and playwright From: August 1, 1819 To September 28, 1891 Age: 72 Years
During the 1830s, he was enrolled at Albany Academy and Albany Classical School, where he studied classic literature and began writing poems, essays and short stories. In 1832 after the death of his father his studies are ended abruptly because his family had to face financial crises. In 1837 he left Albany and start teaching at Massachusetts but he was not satisfied with this job and returned to New York. During same year Melville’s family has to face financial problems so they relocated to Lansing burgh where Herman enrolled at Lansing burgh Academy to study surveying where he was hopeful of gaining employment with the newly initiated Erie Canal project. Then at suggestion of his brother he signed on as a cabin boy for a merchant ship called the St. Lawrence in 1839. Then in 1841 he went on his second sea voyage. Herman Melville is regarded as one of America's greatest writers. In 1956 his masterpiece Moby-Dick adapted for the big screen this became the cause of his fame. He also wrote many quotes on different topics. Famous one is given below, “A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.” He died on September 28, 1891 in New York City at the age of 72 years.
Best Quotes Of Herman Melville
I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. Herman Melville
Friendship Quotes
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
Herman Melville
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Herman Melville
Inspirational Quotes
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words
But vain to popularize profundities, and all
ambiguities.
he understands hard things.
truth is profound.
Herman Melville
Happiness Quotes
He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Men Quotes
Youth is the time when hearts are large.
Herman Melville Heart
Youth
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Herman Melville
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The easiest way of life is the best.
Herman Melville
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Reality
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
Herman Melville
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Reality
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