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Letter "H" » Herman Melville Quotes
«All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys»
«The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.»
«There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.»
«If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.»
«I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.»
«Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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observing, oysters, Thick and Thin, thinnest, thin air
«Ignorance is the parent of fear . . .»
«A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.»
«At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.»
«Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.»
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