Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
HERMAN MELVILLEStay true to the dreams of thy youth.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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