He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.

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HERMAN MELVILLE Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all dee...
HERMAN MELVILLE For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the...
HERMAN MELVILLE For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the...
HERMAN MELVILLE Preferiría no hacerlo
HERMAN MELVILLE ...then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and p...
HERMAN MELVILLE Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!
HERMAN MELVILLE Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. The...
HERMAN MELVILLE Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but...
HERMAN MELVILLE The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned ent...
HERMAN MELVILLE There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange...
HERMAN MELVILLE Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLE Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
HERMAN MELVILLE To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit...
HERMAN MELVILLE There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve ...
HERMAN MELVILLE Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted dow...
HERMAN MELVILLE One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinar...
HERMAN MELVILLE For tho' we know what we ought to be; & what it would be very sweet & beautiful to be; yet w...
HERMAN MELVILLE I say, I can not identify that thing which is called happiness, that thing whose token is a laugh, o...
HERMAN MELVILLE It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the S...
HERMAN MELVILLE Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young philosopher to task, upbraid...
HERMAN MELVILLE You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelegence; f...
HERMAN MELVILLE There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itsel...
HERMAN MELVILLE There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmind...
HERMAN MELVILLE That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true...
HERMAN MELVILLE I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the...
MELVILLE FULLER What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.
MIKE MELVILLE The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the consti...
MELVILLE FULLER The fact that the chief of staff of the land army was so exposed suggests that the command structure...
CHRIS MELVILLE However the... head of state has visibly aged in the past two years and his health may have deterior...
CHRIS MELVILLE It is the same to me, whether I rot in the air or in the ground. The earth is the Lord's.
ANDREW MELVILLE Am I not, three score and eight years old, unto the which age none of my fourteen brethren came; and...
ANDREW MELVILLE The most glaringly obvious fact about the present case is the significant media and public interest ...
RODNEY MELVILLE Do you want me to shut the trial down this afternoon? ... You are not to engage in this kind of inte...
RODNEY MELVILLE I've got tooth marks on my heart.
MIKE MELVILLE Judging by his reaction, Bongo feels surrounded by nebulous threats. The root of his anxiety is not ...
CHRIS MELVILLE Midnight Omen Deja vu" - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean...at least once in...
MARTI MELVILLE inherently improbable and not credible.
RODNEY MELVILLE It's a subpoena. He has to obey,
RODNEY MELVILLE It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into t...
HERMAN HESSE I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the co...
HERMAN CAIN The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark lik...
BILLY HERMAN I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
GEORGE HERMAN When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
HERMAN WOUK Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws...
HERMAN HESSE Life was a colorful painful pageant to her, in which right and wrong were wobbly yardsticks. Values ...
HERMAN WOUK Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives.....
HERMAN WOUK African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservat...
HERMAN CAIN Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction...
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He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.

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He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.

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