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That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.
— Herman Melville
A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.
— Herman Melville
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
— Herman Melville
I've part changed my flesh since that time, why not my mind?
— Herman Melville
However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.
— Herman Melville
art is the objectification of feeling
— Herman Melville
Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.
— Herman Melville
Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.
— D.H. Lawrence
Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.
— Herman Melville
We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?
— Herman Melville
Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.
— Herman Melville
Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?
— Herman Melville
An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.
— Herman Melville
Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.
— Herman Melville
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
— Herman Melville
Slowly it floats more and more away,
— Herman Melville
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
— Herman Melville
It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.
— Herman Melville
Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward.
— Herman Melville
Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
— Herman Melville
Leviathan is not the biggest fish; - I have heard of Krakens.
— Herman Melville
A pretty pickle, truly, thought I; abed here in a strange house in the broad day, with a cannibal and a tomahawk.
— Herman Melville
It is not down on any map; true places never are.
— Herman Melville
go on a whaling voyage; this
— Herman Melville
But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
— Herman Melville
There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
— Herman Melville
Not so much thy skill, then, O hunter, as the great necessities that strike the victory to thee!
— Herman Melville
an eight day clock.
— Herman Melville
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
— Herman Melville