You cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEArt is the objectification of feeling.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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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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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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