Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly. Herman Melville More Quotes by Herman Melville More Quotes From Herman Melville Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you. Herman Melville whales blessing dream Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. Herman Melville ragged edges literature When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce take their penetration & acumen. They have robbed us of the bloom. Herman Melville eye dog wish Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored. Herman Melville strange sympathy firsts I would prefer not to. Herman Melville ego To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. Herman Melville time birthday life Truth is in things, and not in words. Herman Melville truth-is Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. Herman Melville inspirational funny years Honor lies in the mane of a horse. Herman Melville horse honor lying If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid. Herman Melville hurt fear dream There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. Herman Melville soul sea sweet I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one. Herman Melville prejudice should thinking Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters. Herman Melville gliding stars monsters Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. Herman Melville pagan heaven needs 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 Melville strength literature way A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. Herman Melville melancholy crafts noble Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras. Herman Melville enlightened judgement missionary The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would. Herman Melville officers worst evil Failure is the true test of greatness Herman Melville greatness tests Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead? Herman Melville pain men people
