Herman Melville quotes - page 4

But me they'll lash me in hammock, drop me deep. Fathoms down, fathoms down, how I'll dream fast asleep. I feel it stealing now. Sentry, are you there? Just ease this darbies at the wrist, and roll me over fair, I am sleepy, and the oozy weeds about me twist. (Herman Melville)
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. View quote
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? View quote
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To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another. View quote
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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. View quote
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. View quote
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. View quote
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Art is the objectification of feeling. View quote
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. View quote
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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. View quote
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth. (Herman Melville)
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. View quote
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. View quote
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. View quote
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They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure. View quote
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. View quote
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. View quote
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters. View quote
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. View quote
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. View quote
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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. (Herman Melville)
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space. View quote
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Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish? View quote
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. View quote
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would. View quote
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