A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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 am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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