A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
HERMAN MELVILLEI cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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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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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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