A Quote by Herman Melville

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

Herman Melville

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Herman Melville
American - Novelist
August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891

He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

Herman Melville

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John Lancaster Spalding

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Alan Watts

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Dizzy Gillespie

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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Josephine Pollard

Without evidence, anything goes. Think about it. Common sense says the sun goes round the Earth. Who agrees with me?

Harry Kroto

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Roy Kesey

I actually worry that we're so mindlessly following the herd on privacy and data being the principle concerns when the actual things that are affecting the felt sense of your life and where your time goes, where your attention goes, where democracy goes, where teen mental health goes, where outrage goes.

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.