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.
HERMAN MELVILLEArt is the objectification of feeling.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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