There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
HERMAN MELVILLEReal strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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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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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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