Silence is the only Voice of our God.
HERMAN MELVILLENature is nobody’s ally.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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