There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is m… - Herman Melville

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There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

Herman Melville

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Herman Melville (1 August 1819 – 28 September 1891) was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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Alternative Names: Hermann Melville • Herman Melvill

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Instinct and study; love and hate;
Audacity — reverence. These must mate,
And fuse with Jacob’s mystic heart,
To wrestle with the angel — Art.

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it.

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. - Herman Melville

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