Truth is in things, and not in words.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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