Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
HERMAN MELVILLEAll 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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