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" He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. "

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" In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. "

Herman Melville

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" There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. "

" The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. "

" Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish? "

" Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. "

" Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. "

" There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. "

" It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. "

" There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. "

" It is not down in any map; true places never are. "

" Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things. "

" Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. "

" There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. "

" Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. "

" Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? "

" Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. "

" To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment. "

" There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. "

" A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. "

" We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. "

Herman Melville

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Cannot

" There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. "

" It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. "

" A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. "

" They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. "

" There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man. "

" I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. "

Herman Melville

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Handsome

" Truth is in things, and not in words. "

" Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. "

Herman Melville

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" There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid. "

" There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep. "