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Letter "H" » Herman Melville Quotes
«For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.»
«Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.»
«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.»
«Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.»
«Grab your oars and clutch your souls!»
«A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.»
«The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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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?»
«In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.»
«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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