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 MELVILLEWe are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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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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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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