Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning.
For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that pe… - Herman Melville
For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that pe…
- Herman Melville
Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits... they are swe… - Herman Melville
Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits... they are swe…
...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight. - Herman Melville
...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity. - Herman Melville
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
Only the man who says no is free - Herman Melville
Only the man who says no is free
Ignorance is the father of all fear. - Herman Melville
Ignorance is the father of all fear.
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
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.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. - Herman Melville
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
The eyes are the gateway to the soul. - Herman Melville
The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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