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.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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 am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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