You cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot hide the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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