Ignorance is the parent of fear.
HERMAN MELVILLESee how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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