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Land Quotes by Herman Melville
- Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
- Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the…
- 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 I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I…
- But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than…
- Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest…
- I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
- As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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