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.
HERMAN MELVILLEBeneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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