See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
HERMAN MELVILLEThou 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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