Truth is in things, and not in words.
HERMAN MELVILLETo produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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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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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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