A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot hide the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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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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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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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.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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