I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
HERMAN MELVILLEIgnorance is the parent of fear.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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