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.
HERMAN MELVILLEOne of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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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.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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