An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
HERMAN MELVILLENature is nobody’s ally.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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