Truth is in things, and not in words.
HERMAN MELVILLEAn utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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