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Very Quotes by Herman Melville
- 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…
- It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way…
- 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…
- 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…
- So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and…
- How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there…
- However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for…
- The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big…
- The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in…
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