Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
HERMAN MELVILLEArt is the objectification of feeling.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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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’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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