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Letter "H" » 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.»
«There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath»
«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.»
«Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Drinking
| Keywords:
cannibal, drunken, sleep with, sober
«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.»
«. . . 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.»
«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»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
affair, joke, man of affairs, mixed, occasions, practical, practical joke, queer, queerer, queerest, vast
«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»
«Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.»
«A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Smile
| Keywords:
ambiguities, The Chosen, vehicle
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