You cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEAs for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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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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