Art is the objectification of feeling.
HERMAN MELVILLEIgnorance is the parent of fear.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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