We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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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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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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