An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
HERMAN MELVILLEBetter to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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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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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Whatever my fate, 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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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