I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLEMeditation and water are wedded for ever.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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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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