He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
HERMAN MELVILLEMy body is but the lees of my better being.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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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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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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