Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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