The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEHeaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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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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