Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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