You cannot hide the soul.
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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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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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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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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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You 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.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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