When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
HERMAN MELVILLEBenevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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