Truth is in things, and not in words.
HERMAN MELVILLETis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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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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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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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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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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