Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
HERMAN MELVILLEI love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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You 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.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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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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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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