The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
HERMAN MELVILLEThou 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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