This world Quotes by Herman Melville

11 This world quotes by Herman Melville

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Herman Melville’s short thoughts on “this world” echo his keen observational eye in eleven succinct lines. The collection offers a taste of his reflective voice, giving readers a quick glimpse into his perspective on life’s vastness.

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In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning…

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Is it possible, after all, that spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and…

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Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and…

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...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.

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What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide…

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We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its…

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Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can…

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truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that…

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Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when…

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It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of…

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Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever…

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“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with…

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“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…

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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

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Only the man who says no is free

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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

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“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…

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I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more…

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