The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEA thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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