Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLEThere’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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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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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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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