Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Only the man who says no is free
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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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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