When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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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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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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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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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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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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