Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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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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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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