Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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