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Herman Melville Quotes

"Better to slide thither on a plank than cling to the rocks of a hostile shore""Life’s a voyage that’s homeward-bound""Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand""The past is the terror, and the future time itself""Truth is in things, and not in words""We are all refugees, fleeing from our own past""Of all the things which are no longer what they seem""I try all things I achieve what I can""Old age is always wakeful as if the longer linked with life""Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses""Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers""A noble craft but somehow a most melancholy All noble things are touched with that""Loyalty to the right aims and objects is an admirable thing ""There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men ""It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open ""God keep me from ever completing anything This whole book is but a draught nay but the draught of a draught ""To produce a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme ""We are all sailors on an alien sea ""There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast Nothing exists in itself ""A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world "