I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Only the man who says no is free
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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