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 MELVILLEThe eyes are the gateway to the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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