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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Herman Melville

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 MELVILLE

Feeling Love Myself Nature Remote Sea
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Come Known Laughter Myself Willing
Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Animal Honor One Liner Respect
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Brain Calm Cool Heart Ourselves Thinking
Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Silence Talk Women Yourself
Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Bird Blessing Dreams Home Shelter Sick View Yourself
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Accomplishment Habit Inspirational Strange
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Contrast Existence Quality World
Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Dumb Evolution Face Infinite Space Surface Talk Time
Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Dishonor Himself Respect
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Care Enterprise Method Order True
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Mistake Set Sign Strength Talk Way Weakness
Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
HERMAN MELVILLE

Friendship Help Illusion One Liner
When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
HERMAN MELVILLE

Born Equality Freedom Legal Men Slave Writing
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Behavior Human Myself Study Theory
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Charity Myself Oneself Prejudice Thinking

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

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