Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
HERMAN MELVILLESilence is the only Voice of our God.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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