It is not down in any map; true places never are.
HERMAN MELVILLEAid my disillusionment, my friend!
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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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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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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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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