For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
HERMAN MELVILLESee how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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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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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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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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