Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
HERMAN MELVILLETruth is in things, and not in words.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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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