There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
HERMAN MELVILLELet 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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