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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you (Herman Melville Quotes)
Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it (Herman Melville Quotes)
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 (Herman Melville Quotes)
It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships’ cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it (Herman Melville Quotes)
But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers’ greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law (Herman Melville Quotes)
But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt... we dispatched it with great expedition (Herman Melville Quotes)
Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no God be there (Herman Melville Quotes)
At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling. Life is so short, and so ridiculous and irrational (from a certain point of view) that one knows not what to make of it, unless--well, finish the sentence for yourself (Herman Melville Quotes)
It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha (Herman Melville Quotes)
Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain greater strength among many barbarous people. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the courage of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendships of some of the Polynesian nations, far surpass any thing of a similar kind among the polished communities of Europe (Herman Melville Quotes)
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it (Herman Melville Quotes)
The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature (Herman Melville Quotes)
The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers (Herman Melville Quotes)
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance. (Herman Melville Quotes)
Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude. (Herman Melville Quotes)
But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves. Because they have no memory . . . because they are not human. (Herman Melville Quotes)
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. (Herman Melville Quotes)
We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. (Herman Melville Quotes)
There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas. (Herman Melville Quotes)
... an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. (Herman Melville Quotes)
I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas ... (Herman Melville Quotes)
There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fair mindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan. (Herman Melville Quotes)
The man’s (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am; he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. (Herman Melville Quotes)
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man’s liberty; and that I preserved my own. (Herman Melville Quotes)
...a man of true science uses few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; Where as the smatterer in science...thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. (Herman Melville Quotes)
Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. (Herman Melville Quotes)
The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. (Herman Melville Quotes)
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation (Herman Melville Quotes)
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities (Herman Melville Quotes)
What like a bullet can undeceive! (Herman Melville Quotes)