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.
HERMAN MELVILLEArt is the objectification of feeling.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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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.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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 only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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