A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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You cannot hide the soul.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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