QUOTES by Herman Melville
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"There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them."
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"Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another."
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"Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up."
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"And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment."
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"Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and devilry, in this world. How much money did the devil make by gulling Eve?"
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"And yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes."
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"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method."
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"For there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself."
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"...what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!"
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"Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor"
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"But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!"
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"There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!"
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"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."
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"Seldom have I known any profound being that had anything to say to this world, unless forced to stammer out something by way of getting a living. Oh! happy that the world is such an excellent listener!"
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"Will you, or will you not, quit me?' I now demanded in a sudden passion, advancing close to him. 'I would prefer not to quit you', he replied, gently emphasizing the not."
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"Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks."
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"Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs"
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"At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before"
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"The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run"
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"I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best."
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"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."
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"And tell him to paint me a sign, with-"no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;" might as well kill both birds at once."
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"In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere."
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"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it."
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"[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago."
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"[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."
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"Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?"
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"Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?"
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"Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part."
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"Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them."
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