Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
HERMAN MELVILLEMan is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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