A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
HERMAN MELVILLEHonor lies in the mane of a horse.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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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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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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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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