You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelegence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem to work so much by reason or instinct, or simply because he had been tuitored into it, or by any intermixture of all of these , even or uneven; but merely by a kind of deaf and dumb , sponteneous literal process.


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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth
HERMAN MELVILLE
Art is the objectification of feeling.
HERMAN MELVILLE
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses
HERMAN MELVILLE
Oh, Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky. On such a day - very much such a swee...
HERMAN MELVILLE
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be wea...
HERMAN MELVILLE
Ничто так не выделяло этого человека, как его очевидна�...
HERMAN MELVILLE
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Two hundred years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker’s last. And in...
HERMAN MELVILLE
For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettin...
HERMAN MELVILLE
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
HERMAN MELVILLE
To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
HERMAN MELVILLE
I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.
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
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...
HERMAN KAHN