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.
HERMAN MELVILLEI know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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