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.
HERMAN MELVILLETruth is in things, and not in words.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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