I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLEFaith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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