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Herman Melville  Quotes
I would prefer not to.

—Herman Melville

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EgoMelvilleMystery
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There she blows!” Had the trump of judgment blown, they could not have quivered more; yet still they felt no terror; rather pleasure. For though it was a most unwonted hour, yet so impressive was...

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AlliterationBeautyMelville
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.

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AdventureLaughter
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At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon...

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Christmas
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There is all the different in the world between paying and being paid.

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Money
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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.

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HellMoby-Dick
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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...

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CopingMoodSea
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Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare’s? But...

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Frederick-William-HerschelFriedrich-Wilhelm-HerschelPhilosophy
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There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause: – through infancy’s unconscious spell, boyhood’s thoughtless faith, adolescence’ doubt (the common doom)....

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EvolutionGrowthLife
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Is he mad? Anyway there’s something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

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HumorIntellectMental
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If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall...

—Herman Melville

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AmericansFreedom
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

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AdventureAdventuresomeJust-Do-It
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Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

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Madness
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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

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PovertyWords
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Oh, Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky. On such a day – very much such a sweetness as this – I struck my first whale – a boy-harpooneer of...

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AnguishInsanityNostalgia
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Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon...

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New-York-City
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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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MadnessWisdomWoe
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which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest....

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AbrahamAhabDeath
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123)

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Old-Age
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Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure….. Consider all this; and then turn to...

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InspirationalNature
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His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his...

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AdventureEpicObsession
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Genius is full of trash.

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Genius
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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...

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AntisocialDepressionNegativity
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All is vanity.” ALL. This wilful world hath not got hold of unchristian Solomon’s wisdom yet.

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SolomonSorrowVanity
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Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

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Happiness
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Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but...

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FateFree-Will
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All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

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MadnessSanity
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An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.

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Moby-DickNatureSunset
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…then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander’s soul.

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CorpseDarknessFire
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It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and...

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In-The-World-But-Not-Of-ItIndividual-VitalityVirtue
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The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in...

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DepressionMelancholyMoby-Dick
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They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian’s Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People’s Business.

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AnarchyChinese-SocietyFunny
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Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between–Is my journey’s end coming?

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DeathHuman-ConditionHumanity
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Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed. ‘Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates’ lieutenant, I act under orders.

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At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,’ was his mildly cadaverous reply.

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ReasoningSanity
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However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the...

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ManNatureScience
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Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

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AmbitionHubrisObsession
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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago–never mind how long precisely–having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see...

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AmericanFirst-LinesWater
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Were I the wind, I’d blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world.

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WindWorld
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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CollegeShipWhale
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The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world...

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GodHorrorLovecraft
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Thought he, it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a pagan.

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MoralityReligion
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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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Connection
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To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

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Human-ConditionPainPity
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

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CriticismPoverty
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…the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open…

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FloodWonder
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

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

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Success
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

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Writing
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one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale....

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AhabAngerArkansas
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