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Quote by Herman Melville
It is not down in any map; true places never are. - Herman Melvill

It is not down in any map; true places never are. – Herman Melville

Other quotes by Herman Melville

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. – Herman Melville

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Age
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Herman Melville
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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – Herman Melville

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Truth
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Herman Melville
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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. – Herman Melville

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Future
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Other Quotes from
Travel
category

Were constantly buying airplane tickets we travel on the Concorde. – Eva Herzigova

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Travel

Sometimes I envy people who can be only half crazy, with one foot in the passion and one foot in the real world. But thats not me. I dive into the total crazy experience. Thats the only way to travel. – Kiran Ahluwalia

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Travel

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. – Xun Zi

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Travel

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be. – Barney Oliver

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Travel

Random Quotes

Resolve to make each day the very best and dont let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them. – Ivan Benson

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Excellence

Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. – Van Wyck Brooks

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Ancestry, Ancestors

A mans real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. – Joseph Conrad

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respect

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair. – Friedrich Schiller

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Food