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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity - Herman Melville Quotes

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity

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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 Quotes

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

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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. - Herman Melville Quotes

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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Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending - Herman Melville Quotes

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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Grub, ho! now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast. - Herman Melville Quotes

Grub, ho! now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast.

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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. - Herman Melville Quotes

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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People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good? - Herman Melville Quotes

People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?

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The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. - Herman Melville Quotes

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.

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It is not down in any map; true places never are. - Herman Melville Quotes

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

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American Novelist Map

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. - Herman Melville Quotes

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

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American Novelist

So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God. - Herman Melville Quotes

So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

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No utter surprise can come to him Who reaches Shakespeare's core; That which we seek and shun is there - Man's final lore - Herman Melville Quotes

No utter surprise can come to him Who reaches Shakespeare's core; That which we seek and shun is there - Man's final lore

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We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. - Herman Melville Quotes

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

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Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols. - Herman Melville Quotes

Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols.

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Light

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. - Herman Melville Quotes

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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Human Fellowship

Grab your oars and clutch your souls! - Herman Melville Quotes

Grab your oars and clutch your souls!

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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. - Herman Melville Quotes

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

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America American Novelist

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. - Herman Melville Quotes

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

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American Novelist Men

. . . these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang. - Herman Melville Quotes

. . . these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

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Henry Melville. - Herman Melville Quotes

Henry Melville.

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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. - Herman Melville Quotes

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

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American Novelist Dignity

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with ourfellowmen? and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run ascauses, and they come back to us as effects. - Herman Melville Quotes

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with ourfellowmen? and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run ascauses, and they come back to us as effects.

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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. - Herman Melville Quotes

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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Friends Or Friendship Quote of the Day

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. - Herman Melville Quotes

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

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American Novelist Imitation

Art is the objectification of feeling. - Herman Melville Quotes

Art is the objectification of feeling.

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American Novelist Art

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. - Herman Melville Quotes

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

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American Novelist Books And Reading

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. - Herman Melville Quotes

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

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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 Quotes

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

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Heart

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, -for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. - Herman Melville Quotes

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, -for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? - Herman Melville Quotes

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

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Appreciation Nature

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor - Herman Melville Quotes

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. - Herman Melville Quotes

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

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Men

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. - Herman Melville Quotes

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

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American Novelist Faith

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. - Herman Melville Quotes

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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Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored... - Herman Melville Quotes

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored...

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Death

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us. - Herman Melville Quotes

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath - Herman Melville Quotes

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath

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All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life. - Herman Melville Quotes

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life.

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Men

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. - Herman Melville Quotes

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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American Novelist

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 Quotes

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.

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American Novelist Sin

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke - Herman Melville Quotes

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke

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Life

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities - Herman Melville Quotes

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities

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Smile

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. - Herman Melville Quotes

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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American Novelist Hate

There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan - Herman Melville Quotes

There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan

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

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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American Novelist College

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 Quotes

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.

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Death

..fiery yearnings their own phantom-futures make, and deem it present. So, after all these fearful, fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained - - yet, in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do. - Herman Melville Quotes

..fiery yearnings their own phantom-futures make, and deem it present. So, after all these fearful, fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained - - yet, in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.

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So philosophers so throughly comprehend us as horses. - Herman Melville Quotes

So philosophers so throughly comprehend us as horses.

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He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great. - Herman Melville Quotes

He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great.

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Man

Yet habit--strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish? - Herman Melville Quotes

Yet habit--strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

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Habit

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