As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLEBeneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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