I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLEHonor lies in the mane of a horse.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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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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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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