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Thinking Quotes by Herman Melville
- 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…
- 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…
- One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own…
- I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
- God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture…
- 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…
- 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.
- A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
- There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other…
- 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…
- Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
- Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler…
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