My body is but the lees of my better being.
HERMAN MELVILLEAn utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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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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