The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.' — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Indolence is heaven's ally here, And energy the child of hell: The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“...there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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