Art is the objectification of feeling.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is not down in any map; true places never are.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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