Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is not down in any map; true places never are.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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