I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
HERMAN MELVILLENo philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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