Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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