Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
HERMAN MELVILLE
HERMAN MELVILLE
More from Herman Melville
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville 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.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville 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.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville 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.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville 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 MelvilleHerman Melville In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville
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