You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
HERMAN MELVILLEI love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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