Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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