As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLEMy body is but the lees of my better being.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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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 are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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