A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
HERMAN MELVILLEHe who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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