All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
HERMAN MELVILLEAs for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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