Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
HERMAN MELVILLEA whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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