It is not down in any map; true places never are.
HERMAN MELVILLEArt is the objectification of feeling.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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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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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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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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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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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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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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