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That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia. — Herman Melville

It's the way you fall you. Gotta let yourself go. — Melville Shavelson

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

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods. — Herman Melville

I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself — Herman Melville

When you sleep in your cloak there 's no lodging to pay. — George Whyte-Melville

Nothing but that one sufficient little word queer; he's queer, says Stubb; he's queer - queer, queer; and keeps dinning it into Mr. Starbuck all the — Herman Melville

Instinct and study, love and hate;
Audacity-reverence. These must mate,
And fuse with Jacob's heart,
To wrestle with the angel
Art. — Herman Melville

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. — Herman Melville

There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty. — Herman Melville

Confusion is not a bad thing. It's not doubt that makes a man mad. It's certainty. — Pauline Melville

Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between
Is my journey's end coming? — Herman Melville

Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue. — Herman Melville

Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play. — Herman Melville

What could be more full of meaning? - for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. — Herman Melville

This looks a good team on paper, let's see how it looks on grass. — Nigel Melville

I've part changed my flesh since that time, why not my mind? — Herman Melville

There is no solitude greater than the samurai's, unless perhaps it be that of a tiger in the jungle. — Jean-Pierre Melville

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar? — 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

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand! — Herman Melville

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues. — Herman Melville

Command the murderous chalices ... Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow
Death to Moby Dick! — Herman Melville

Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo! there's a member-roll for you! What club but the whaleman's can head off like that? — Herman Melville

For few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action — 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

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale ... from hell's heart I stab at thee. — Herman Melville

s eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and generations, including our own. — 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

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-"
"It's Herman Melville. — Lemony Snicket

an eight day clock. — 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

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

The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you will say. — Herman Melville

I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, — Herman Melville

I would be as free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books. — Herman Melville

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. — Herman Melville

A soul's a sort of a fifth wheel to a wagon. — Herman Melville

5TH NANTUCKET SAILOR What's that I saw - lightning? Yes. SPANISH SAILOR No; Daggoo showing his teeth. — Herman Melville

Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well. — Herman Melville

There is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk. — Herman Melville

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it. — Herman Melville

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism. — Herman Melville

Throwing aside the counterpane, there lay the tomahawk sleeping by the savage's side, as if it were a hatchet-faced baby. — Herman Melville

CHAPTER 64 Stubb's Supper — Herman Melville

Of erections how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the whale! — Herman Melville

Not so much thy skill, then, O hunter, as the great necessities that strike the victory to thee! — Herman Melville

Pott's, to whom I handed the work for translation, giving him a box of sperm candles — Herman Melville

[ ... ] and every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly. — Herman Melville

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up. — Herman Melville

But Ahab's glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and cast his last, cindered apple to the soil. — Herman Melville

Report of Daniel Webster's Speech in the U.S. Senate — Herman Melville

Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan. — Herman Melville

It is not down on any map; true places never are. — 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

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life. — Herman Melville

It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin. — Herman Melville

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks. — Herman Melville

Leviathan is not the biggest fish; - I have heard of Krakens. — Herman Melville

Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors. — Florence King

War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace. — Herman Melville

God's one and only voice is silence. — Herman Melville

Flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home. — Herman Melville

Nature is nobody's ally. — Herman Melville

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity. — Herman Melville

Thus mysterious divine Pacific zones the world's whole bulk about; makes all coasts one Bay to it; seems heart-beating heart of earth. — Herman Melville

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? - Because one did survive the wreck. — 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

When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing. — Herman Melville

But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It's not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America. — Robert Stone

No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me. — Melville Fuller

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

Slowly it floats more and more away, — Herman Melville

Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly. — Herman Melville

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least. — 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

Holloa! Starbuck's astir," said the rigger. "He's a lively chief mate that; good man, and a pious; but — Herman Melville

An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide. — 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

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's Moby-Dick - — John Irving

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

It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell. — Herman Melville

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures. — Herman Melville

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own. — Herman Melville

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers. — Herman Melville

He's no more afraid than the isle fort at Cattegat, put there to fight the Baltic with storm-lashed guns, on which the sea-salt cakes! — 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

Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live whale's throat, and then jump after it? Answer, quick! — Herman Melville

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. — Herman Melville

True places are not found on maps. — 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

To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. — Herman Melville

And yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes. — Herman Melville

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions. — Herman Melville

Don't whale it too much a' Lord's days, men; but don't miss a fair chance either, that's rejecting Heaven's good gifts. — Herman Melville

go on a whaling voyage; this — Herman Melville

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse. — Herman Melville