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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
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 betweenIs 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 bowDeath 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
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
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
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— 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
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
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, HIMthat'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
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
