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.
HERMAN MELVILLEA thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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