When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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