Ignorance is the parent of fear.
HERMAN MELVILLEA smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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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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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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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.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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