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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

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. – Herman Melville

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Hope
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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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Other Quotes from
Travel
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Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport. – Henny Youngman

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Travel

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. – William Hazlitt

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Travel

I do not have any pets. We travel too much. – Nancy Kerrigan

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Travel

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it ones self to be acquainted with it. – Lord Chesterfield

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Travel

Random Quotes

My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword. – Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Self

The Negro is the child of two cultures – Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves they fill those they meet with a free mind. – Philo

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Happiness

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed. – Lao-Tzu

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Guilt