My body is but the lees of my better being.
HERMAN MELVILLEReal strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Only the man who says no is free
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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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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