Truth is in things, and not in words.
HERMAN MELVILLEIgnorance is the parent of fear.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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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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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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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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