There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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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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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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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