Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
HERMAN MELVILLETruth is in things, and not in words.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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