Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
HERMAN MELVILLEOld age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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