"We are off! The courses and topsails are……" — Herman Melville
"We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound."
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285 Quotes by Herman Melville
Herman Melville has 285 quotes on this site.
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any…
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To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my…
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter…
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He…
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a…
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He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies…
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away…
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Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the…
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For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me…
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To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel…
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My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk…
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Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell…
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What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by…
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How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
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Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them…
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A babe is a mother's anchor.
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