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Quotations by author » Herman Melville
American short-story Writer, Novelist and Poet. Best known for his novels of the sea, including his masterpiece, Moby Dick. 1819-1891
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth
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From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
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Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!
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Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.
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God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.
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Grab your oars and clutch your souls!
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Grub, ho! now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast.
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He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
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He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.
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He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
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He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great.
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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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Henry Melville.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity
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How wondrous familiar is a fool!
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I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I will go to it laughing.
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I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
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If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear . . .
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