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 MELVILLESilence is the only Voice of our God.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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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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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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