Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot hide the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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