I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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