I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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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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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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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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