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.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is not down in any map; true places never are.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. 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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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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