Best Herman Melville Words
- Leviathan is not the biggest fish; — I have heard of Krakens. Biggest
- Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. All
- War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character. Accessories
- Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning. Big
- It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way… All
- All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily… All
- And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin. All
- Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked… Appear
- Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand! Art
- Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. Allotment
- Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly. Composure
- To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes. Action
- The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain. Alike
- Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals. Amity
- Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong. Amor
- Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his… All
- The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead. Dead
- Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me. Appeased
- Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring. Green
- All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of… All
- Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that. Beat
- Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand. Bare
- Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old! Elderly
- There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men… All
- A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience… Abnegation
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