Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
HERMAN MELVILLETruth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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