Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
HERMAN MELVILLETo know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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You cannot hide the soul.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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