Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
HERMAN MELVILLEI love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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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.
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