The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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