See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
HERMAN MELVILLEIn a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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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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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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