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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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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