All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
HERMAN MELVILLEA whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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