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I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.


Melville D. Landon

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HERMAN MELVILLE The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the consti...
MELVILLE FULLER Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
HERMAN MELVILLE Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
HERMAN MELVILLE Where does the violet tint end and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the c...
HERMAN MELVILLE He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great.
HERMAN MELVILLE The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
HERMAN MELVILLE Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and d...
HERMAN MELVILLE From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wond...
HERMAN MELVILLE To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last b...
HERMAN MELVILLE When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart t...
HERMAN MELVILLE If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
HERMAN MELVILLE No utter surprise can come to him Who reaches Shakespeare's core; That which we seek and shun is the...
HERMAN MELVILLE We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellowmen; and along those...
HERMAN MELVILLE We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
HERMAN MELVILLE To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be w...
HERMAN MELVILLE There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak...
HERMAN MELVILLE Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my s...
HERMAN MELVILLE This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it.
HERMAN MELVILLE Call me Ishmael.
HERMAN MELVILLE There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man tak...
HERMAN MELVILLE He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race...
HERMAN MELVILLE ..fiery yearnings their own phantom-futures make, and deem it present. So, after all these fearful, ...
HERMAN MELVILLE Yet habit--strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLE Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when i...
HERMAN MELVILLE God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking ...
HERMAN MELVILLE All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only w...
HERMAN MELVILLE In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Vir...
HERMAN MELVILLE All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys
HERMAN MELVILLE To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last...
HERMAN MELVILLE Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cra...
HERMAN MELVILLE