Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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