. . . 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. Herman Melville
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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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 Heaven
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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 Madness
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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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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