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From Quotes by Herman Melville
- To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
- When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits…
- Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt…
- Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's…
- A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.
- Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.
- Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the…
- We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the…
- Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.
- Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.
- 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…
- There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
- Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
- Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any…
- Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed…
- Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when…
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