Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLESilence is the only Voice of our God.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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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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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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