Best Herman Melville Proverbs
- Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember. Boy
- I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Adventure
- Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic. Beautiful
- Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.… Air
- Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound. Bound
- When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember… Beauty
- I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself Calm
- Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor Criticize
- Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters. Beneath
- It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him. Easiest
- Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe. Believe
- The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run Fixed
- For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of… Causes
- But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up… Already Involved
- Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where… Bearing
- There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that… Alike
- Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an… Ahab
- for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men Beast
- truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what… All
- Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks. Cracks
- But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than… Alone
- We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run… Action
- Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing… Account
- My body is but the lees of my better being. Better
- Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our… Aright
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