I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot hide the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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