Ignorance is the parent of fear.
HERMAN MELVILLESilence is the only Voice of our God.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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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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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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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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