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.
HERMAN MELVILLETruth is in things, and not in words.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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