Ignorance is the parent of fear.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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