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.
HERMAN MELVILLEHe who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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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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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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