A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
HERMAN MELVILLEI am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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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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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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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 to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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