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Down Quotes by Herman Melville
- People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest…
- Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs…
- The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much…
- He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and…
- It is not down in any map; true places never are.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.
- 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…
- Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never…
- Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his…
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