Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
HERMAN MELVILLEMy body is but the lees of my better being.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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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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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Only the man who says no is free
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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