I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLEDream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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