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.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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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 most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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