"Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed……" — Herman Melville
"Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli! deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood."
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285 Quotes by Herman Melville
Herman Melville has 285 quotes on this site.
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any…
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To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my…
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter…
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He…
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a…
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He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies…
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to
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His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could…
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Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals…
— Noam Chomsky
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Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of…
— Thomas Adams
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As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.
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Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep…
— Amy Poehler
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Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not…
— Herman Melville
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Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.
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And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
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So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he…
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Captain Ahab: I do not sleep, I die.
— Moby Dick
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Imagine having Ahab for a father, and Jezebel for a mother.Only God can help your future.
— Wordfaith3
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