Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is not down in any map; true places never are.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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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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