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.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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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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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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