An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
HERMAN MELVILLEAs for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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