In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
HERMAN MELVILLETruth is in things, and not in words.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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