A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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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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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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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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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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