You cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEI’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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