Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
HERMAN MELVILLEStay true to the dreams of thy youth.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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