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That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.
— Herman Melville
My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.
— Herman Melville
Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.
— 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
These Spaniards are all an odd set; the very word Spaniard has a curious, conspirator, Guy-Fawkish twang to it.
— Herman Melville
It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me.
— Herman Melville
Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!
— Herman Melville
I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
— Herman Melville
Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue.
— Herman Melville
To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.
— Herman Melville
I've part changed my flesh since that time, why not my mind?
— Herman Melville
Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.
— 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
I tell you, the sperm will stand no nonsense.
— Herman Melville
art is the objectification of feeling
— Herman Melville
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
— Herman Melville
Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.
— Herman Melville
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
— Herman Melville
Time itself now held long breaths with keen suspense.
— Herman Melville
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
Born in throes, 't is fit that man should live in pains and die in pangs! So be it, then!
— Herman Melville
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
— 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
Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward.
— Herman Melville
The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.
— 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
To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.
— Herman Melville
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
— Herman Melville
Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.
— Herman Melville
Ignorance is the father of all fear.
— Herman Melville
Morning to ye! Morning to ye!
— Herman Melville
In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
— Herman Melville
Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.
— Herman Melville
go on a whaling voyage; this
— Herman Melville
Queequeq, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen?
— Herman Melville
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises ... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
— Herman Melville
Failure is the true test of greatness
— Herman Melville
Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.
— Herman Melville
It is not down on any map; true places never are.
— Herman Melville
Niggards are oftentimes neat.
— Herman Melville
Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.
— Herman Melville
Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.
— Herman Melville
Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
— Herman Melville
Yet, after all, insensible as he is to a thousand wants, and removed from harassing cares, my not the savage be the happier man..?
— Herman Melville
At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before
— Herman Melville
There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.
— Herman Melville
Holloa! Starbuck's astir," said the rigger. "He's a lively chief mate that; good man, and a pious; but
— Herman Melville
There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
— Herman Melville
Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.
— Herman Melville
Ego non baptiso te in nomine ... but make out the rest yourself.
— Herman Melville
The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch.
— Herman Melville
immortality is but ubiquity in time); that
— Herman Melville
The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.
— Herman Melville
You cannot hide the soul.
— 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
Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?
— Herman Melville
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.
— Herman Melville
True places are not found on maps.
— 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
Leviathan is not the biggest fish; - I have heard of Krakens.
— Herman Melville
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
— Herman Melville
Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.
— 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
Flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.
— 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
God is liberal of color; so should man be.
— Herman Melville
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
— Herman Melville
Adverse winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys.
— Herman Melville
For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.
— Herman Melville
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
— Herman Melville
The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.
— Herman Melville
Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.
— Herman Melville
It is better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.
— Herman Melville
I would prefer not to.
— Herman Melville
The only real owner of anything is its commander;
— Herman Melville
Delight,top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven. — Herman Melville
Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIMthat's bad — Herman Melville
To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.
— Herman Melville
In certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
— Herman Melville
in coat, heart, body, and brain;
— Herman Melville
