Silence is the only Voice of our God.
HERMAN MELVILLE
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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