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.
HERMAN MELVILLENo philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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