Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
HERMAN MELVILLEGenius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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 eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Only the man who says no is free
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