No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
HERMAN MELVILLEGenius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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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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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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