Best quotes by Herman Melville on World

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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
  • In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
    - Herman Melville
  • There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
    - Herman Melville
  • There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
    - Herman Melville
  • There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
    - Herman Melville