There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
HERMAN MELVILLEA smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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