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Author: Herman Melville
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Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale
The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.
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Herman Melville _ Moby Dick
Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about--however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.
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Herman Melville _ Moby Dick
The pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bearthe earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invokedfor favorable winds. Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.
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Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale
Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness
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Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.
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Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale
Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. But in pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of, or in tormented chase of the demon phantom that, some time or other, swims before all human hearts; while chasing such over this round globe, they either lead us on in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed.
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Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale
...for all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal...
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Herman Melville _ Typee: A Peep at Polynesian
Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.
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Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?
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Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. {moby dick chap 29 p123}
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Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale
Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
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Herman Melville _ Bartleby the Scrivener
But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
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