Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
HERMAN MELVILLEI am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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