You cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEAll round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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