Silence is the only Voice of our God.
HERMAN MELVILLEDo not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
More Herman Melville Quotes
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You cannot hide the soul.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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