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.
HERMAN MELVILLEThou 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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 are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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