Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot hide the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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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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