Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot hide the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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