Nature is nobody’s ally.
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 thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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.
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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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