When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
HERMAN MELVILLEArt is the objectification of feeling.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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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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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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