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.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot hide the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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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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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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You cannot hide the soul.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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