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

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

Herman Melville
Nature, Travel, Home
Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.57

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

Herman Melville
Travel, Adventure, Sea
Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.12

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Herman Melville
Inspirational, Life, Travel
Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.12

For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.

Herman Melville
Travel, Kings, Giving Up
Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.422, Northwestern University Press

Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.

Herman Melville
Travel, Fire, Touching
Herman Melville (2016). “Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories”, p.148, Penguin

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
Travel, World, Pay
Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.31, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

The pleasure of leaving home, care-free, with no concern but to enjoy, has also as a pendant the pleasure of coming back to the old hearthstone, the home to which, however traveled, the heart still fondly turns, ignoring the burden of its anxieties and cares.

Herman Melville
Travel, Home, Heart
Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.422, Northwestern University Press

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

Herman Melville
Money, Travel, Cash
Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.148, Northwestern University Press

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