Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
HERMAN MELVILLEOne of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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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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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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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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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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