It is not down in any map; true places never are.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot hide the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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