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.
HERMAN MELVILLEAn utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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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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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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