I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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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.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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