QUOTES by Herman Melville
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"Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts."
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"For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it."
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"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."
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"Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe."
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"There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man."
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"The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free."
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"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it."
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"I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself"
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"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
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"Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none."
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"I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy."
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"In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans."
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"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."
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"Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head."
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"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."
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"Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it."
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"A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that."
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"Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic."
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"It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him."
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"Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth."
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"Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form."
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"...to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."
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"...and Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending."
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"For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men"
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"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."
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"As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
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"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed."
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"I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one."
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