You cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere’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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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