Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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