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Thought Quotes by Herman Melville
- And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for…
- And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
- But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that…
- I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
- Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on…
- 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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