Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
HERMAN MELVILLEAid my disillusionment, my friend!
More Herman Melville Quotes
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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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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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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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 most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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