A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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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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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The eyes are the gateway to 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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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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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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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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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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