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.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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