"Why, ever since Adam, who has got to……" — Herman Melville
"Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended."
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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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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?
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Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man,…
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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's…
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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
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For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and…
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One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted
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