An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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.
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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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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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