A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
HERMAN MELVILLEThinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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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 path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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