Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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