In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
HERMAN MELVILLEI am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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 thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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