What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
HERMAN MELVILLEMy body is but the lees of my better being.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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