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Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: That great America on the other side of That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia. Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: My means are sane, my motives and my My means are sane, my motives and my object mad. Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: A beautiful woman is born Queen of men 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
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: These Spaniards are all an odd set; the These Spaniards are all an odd set; the very word Spaniard has a curious, conspirator, Guy-Fawkish twang to it. Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: To be a born American citizen seems a To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote. Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Beware the People weeping When they bare the Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand. Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: I tell you, the sperm will stand no I tell you, the sperm will stand no nonsense. Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Courage is the most common and vulgar of Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues. Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: For few men's courage is proof against protracted For few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: We talk of the Turks, and abhor the We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us? Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: At length I fell asleep, with the volume At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales 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
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; 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
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Morning to ye! Morning to ye! Morning to ye! Morning to ye! — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: For all his tattooings he was on the For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal ... — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Delight,top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no 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
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: There is a touch of divinity even in 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
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Adverse winds are holding mad Christmas in him, Adverse winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Ignorance is the father of all fear. Ignorance is the father of all fear. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Leviathan is not the biggest fish; - I Leviathan is not the biggest fish; - I have heard of Krakens. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Ego non baptiso te in nomine ... but Ego non baptiso te in nomine ... but make out the rest yourself. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Until we understand that our grief outweighs a Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Stay true to the dreams of thy youth. Stay true to the dreams of thy youth. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Yet, after all, insensible as he is to 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
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Queequeq, my fine friend, does this sort of Queequeq, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen? — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: It is not down on any map; true It is not down on any map; true places never are. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: There are two places in the world where There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Holloa! Starbuck's astir," said the rigger. "He's a Holloa! Starbuck's astir," said the rigger. "He's a lively chief mate that; good man, and a pious; but — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: There is a savor of life and immortality There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Faith and philosophy are air, but events are Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: The American, who up to the present day, 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
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: The reason the mass of men fear God, 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
Melville Quotes By Henry Melville: Being in love with someone is like daytime. Being in love with someone is like daytime. You know there are other stars our there someplace, but you can only see the sun. — Henry Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: immortality is but ubiquity in time); that immortality is but ubiquity in time); that — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: The terrors of truth and dart of death The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: You cannot hide the soul. You cannot hide the soul. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed. Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: To treat of human actions is to deal To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: It is not for man to follow the 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
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: When the passage "All men are born free 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
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins? — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By John Irving: Melville's Moby-Dick - Melville's Moby-Dick - — John Irving
Melville Quotes By Marti Melville: The characters tell their story - I am The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it — Marti Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: The march of conquest through wild provinces, may The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: True places are not found on maps. True places are not found on maps. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Are not half our lives spent in reproaches 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
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Surely a gentle sister is the second best 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
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: If you can get nothing better out of If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Slowly it floats more and more away, Slowly it floats more and more away, — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: See how elastic our prejudices grow when once See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises ... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness 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
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions. Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: A pretty pickle, truly, thought I; abed here A pretty pickle, truly, thought I; abed here in a strange house in the broad day, with a cannibal and a tomahawk. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its 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
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: But thus it often is, that the constant 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
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: There's magic in the water that draws all 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
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Not so much thy skill, then, O hunter, Not so much thy skill, then, O hunter, as the great necessities that strike the victory to thee! — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: an eight day clock. an eight day clock. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Methinks that what they call my shadow here Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: The shadows of things are greater than themselves; The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: The whale has no famous author, and whaling The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you will say. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: It is better to sail with a moody It is better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: I would prefer not to. I would prefer not to. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: The only real owner of anything is its The only real owner of anything is its commander; — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Flight from tyranny does not of itself insure Flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: go on a whaling voyage; this go on a whaling voyage; this — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: God is liberal of color; so should man God is liberal of color; so should man be. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIM
that's bad — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Friendship at first sight, like love at first Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: What he ate did not so much relieve What he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Elizabeth Melville: Though tyrants threat, though Lyons rage and roreDefy Though tyrants threat, though Lyons rage and rore
Defy them all, and feare not to win out. — Elizabeth Melville
Melville Quotes By George Whyte-Melville: In the choice of a horse and a In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends. — George Whyte-Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: In certain moods, no man can weigh this In certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: in coat, heart, body, and brain; in coat, heart, body, and brain; — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick! — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien. — Herman Melville
Melville Quotes By Herman Melville: War should be carried on like a monsoon; War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim. — Herman Melville