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.
HERMAN MELVILLEStay true to the dreams of thy youth.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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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’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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