There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
HERMAN MELVILLESee how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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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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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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