As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere’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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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