Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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