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 MELVILLETo produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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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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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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