Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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