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Herman Melville Quotes

«By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.»
«Grub, ho! now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast.»
«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 indulged.»
Author: Herman Melville (Novelist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: evermore
«Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols.»
«Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with slouched hat and guilty eye, skulking from his God; prowling among the shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas.»
«So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.»
Author: Herman Melville (Novelist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: weal
«They think me mad--Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!»
«We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.»
«Fear is the child of ignorance»
«Henry Melville.»

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