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Herman Melville Quote: “Yea, foolish mortals, Noah’s flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.”
Herman Melville Quote: “I will have no man in my boat,” said Starbuck, “who is not afraid of a whale.” By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.”
Herman Melville Quote: “See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.”
Herman Melville Quote: “Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.”
Herman Melville Quote: “They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.”
Herman Melville Quote: “But I shall follow the endless, winding way, – the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.”
Herman Melville Quote: “Niggards are oftentimes neat.”
Herman Melville Quote: “There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.”
Herman Melville Quote: “But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.”
Herman Melville Quote: “Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!”
Herman Melville Quote: “Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off – then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”
Herman Melville Quote: “As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.”
Herman Melville Quote: “I am madness maddened! That wild madness that’s only calm to comprehend itself.”
Herman Melville Quote: “Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.”
Herman Melville Quote: “The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.”
Herman Melville Quote: “The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. But the food of thy body is champagne and oysters; feed it then on champagne and oysters; and so shall it merit a joyful resurrection, if there is any to be.”
Herman Melville Quote: “But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.”
Herman Melville Quote: “He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.”
Herman Melville Quote: “Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.”
Herman Melville Quote: “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 Quote: “If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.”
Herman Melville Quote: “There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.”
Herman Melville Quote: “Leviathan is not the biggest fish; – I have heard of Krakens.”
Herman Melville Quote: “There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear – the city of London and the South Seas.”
Herman Melville Quote: “I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.”
Herman Melville Quote: “Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.”
Herman Melville Quote: “Who has but once dined his friends, has tasted what it is to be Caesar.”
Herman Melville Quote: “At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.”
Herman Melville Quote: “Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”
Herman Melville Quote: “He’s a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab; doesn’t speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen.”
Herman Melville Quote: “Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass;.”
Herman Melville Quote: “My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.”
Herman Melville Quote: “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 Quote: “The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating them, till they are left living with half a heart and half a lung.”
Herman Melville Quote: “He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.”
Herman Melville Quote: “Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.”
Herman Melville Quote: “Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.”
Herman Melville Quote: “In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.”
Herman Melville Quote: “There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.”
Herman Melville Quote: “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 Quote: “There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.”
Herman Melville Quote: “With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this.”
Herman Melville Quote: “God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught – nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!”
Herman Melville Quote: “One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.”
Herman Melville Quote: “Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!”
Herman Melville Quote: “A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.”
Herman Melville Quote: “True Work is the necessity of poor humanity’s earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.”
Herman Melville Quote: “In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”
Herman Melville Quote: “Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You’ll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.”
Herman Melville Quote: “Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.”
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