Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe eyes are the gateway to the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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 am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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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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