Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
HERMAN MELVILLEI do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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