Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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