Silence is the only Voice of our God.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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