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Herman Melville Quotes: To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
         

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.


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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.



Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.



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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.



Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.



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