Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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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 sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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