You cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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