Quote by Herman Melville
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely,

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. – Herman Melville

Other quotes by Herman Melville

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? – Herman Melville

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Nature
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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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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world I had my own Goosebumps attraction at Disney World Ive been on TV and had three TV series. – R. L. Stine

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Travel

I mean, Id love to have a private jet – I know people who fly by private jet all the time… Ive hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all its a great way to travel! – Marc Jacobs

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Travel

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. Its not about inventing. – Paul Theroux

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Travel

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection. – Ryszard Kapuscinski

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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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Nature is a Haunted House – but Art – a House that tries to be haunted. – Emily Dickinson, 1876

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You have to be positive, and Im not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life. – Sheryl Swoopes

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In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy. – Haniel Long

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