Best Herman Melville Wisdom
- Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar? Bar
- Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be… Certainly Since
- There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need,… Aids
- I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Book
- Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must… Bearing
- Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none. Ah
- Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his… Bloated
- To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. Book
- At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before Asleep
- In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. Hair
- I would prefer not to. Ego
- I try all things, I achieve what I can. Achieve
- I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. Been
- Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed,… All
- Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the… Begins
- Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. Atheism
- Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed… Appal
- The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Bible
- A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. All
- But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets… Amid
- For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever… Architect
- A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in… Afford
- Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give… Aye Aye
- I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either… All
- Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in… Absent
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