A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
HERMAN MELVILLEI love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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