We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
HERMAN MELVILLEMeditation and water are wedded for ever.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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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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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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