Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
HERMAN MELVILLEWhatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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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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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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