All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
HERMAN MELVILLEAn utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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