Herman Melville on deep
Herman Melville95 quotes“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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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville 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.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville My body is but the lees of my better being.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville 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.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville
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