"Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when……" — Herman Melville
"Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me."
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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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We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a…
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The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to…
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own…
— Samuel Johnson
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Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.
— Harold Rosenberg
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No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is…
— Jules Verne
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I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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We've seen their kind before. The terrorists are the heirs to fascism. They have the same wield of power, the…
— George W. Bush
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Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
— Gautama Buddha
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there…
— Simone Weil
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I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of…
— Odilon Redon
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Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy,…
— Viktor Korchnoi
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The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one…
— C L R James
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