I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot hide the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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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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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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