Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
HERMAN MELVILLEArt is the objectification of feeling.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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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.
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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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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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