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Though an unpleasant sort of person, and even a queer threatener withal, yet, if one meets him, one must get along with him as one can; for hi...
By Herman Melville
'Tis no great valor to perish sword in hand, and bravado on lip; cased all in panoply complete. For even the alligator dies in his mail, and t...
By Herman Melville
Through the port comes the moon-shine astray! It tips the guard's cutlass and silvers this nook;...
By Herman Melville
These marbles, the works of the dreamers and idealists of old, live on, leading and pointing to good. They are the works of visionaries and dr...
By Herman Melville
There is no faith, and no stoicism, and no philosophy, that a mortal man can possibly evoke, which will stand the final test of a real impassi...
By Herman Melville
There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political...
By Herman Melville
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practica...
By Herman Melville
The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and pol...
By Herman Melville
The calm, the coolness, the silent grass-growing mood in which a man ought always to compose,—that, I fear, can seldom be mine. Dollars damn...
By Herman Melville
The Cave of Jeremiah is in this part. In its lamentable recesses he composed his lamentable Lamentations.
By Herman Melville
That matches are made in heaven, may be, but my wife would have been just the wife for Peter the Great, or Peter Piper. How would she have set...
By Herman Melville
That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is...
By Herman Melville
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...
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Oh! mock not the poniarded heart. The stabbed man knows the steel; prate not to him that it is only a ticking feather.
By Herman Melville
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
By Herman Melville
Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.
By Herman Melville
Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too high; & so ...
By Herman Melville
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads th...
By Herman Melville
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...
By Herman Melville