A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
HERMAN MELVILLEGenius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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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 cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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