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Whole Quotes by Herman Melville
- You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a…
- In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
- The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.
- This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I…
- Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
- And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real…
- All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily…
- 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 are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast…
- 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…
- ...for all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal...
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