The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEA smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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