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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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