Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
Herman Melville
Gliding Monsters, Star Universe, Cosmic Mystery, Monsters, Universe, Stars
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“Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.” Herman Melville
Cool Thinking, Calmness Brains, Heart Throbs, Thinking, Calmness, Throbs
Herman Melville Cool Thinking, Calmness Brains, Heart Throbs, Thinking, Calmness, Throbs“Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.” Herman Melville
Laughing Fate, Fate’s Humor, Facing Fate, Cheerful Fate, Fate’s Path, Laughing Through
Herman Melville Laughing Fate, Fate’s Humor, Facing Fate, Cheerful Fate, Fate’s Path, Laughing Through“There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.” Herman Melville
Sadness And Solitude, Emotional Traps, Human Nature, Melancholy, Comfort, Idleness
Herman Melville Sadness And Solitude, Emotional Traps, Human Nature, Melancholy, Comfort, Idleness“The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.” Herman Melville
Life’s Joys, Perils Faced, Sweetest Joys, Perilous Beauty, Joy In Danger, Life’s Sweetness
Herman Melville Life’s Joys, Perils Faced, Sweetest Joys, Perilous Beauty, Joy In Danger, Life’s Sweetness“Indolence is heaven’s ally here, And energy the child of hell: The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.” Herman Melville
Indolence’s Ally, Energy And Hell, Goodness And Poison, Clear And Tainted, Evil’s Child, Heavenly Aid
Herman Melville Indolence’s Ally, Energy And Hell, Goodness And Poison, Clear And Tainted, Evil’s Child, Heavenly Aid“Have an eye to the molasses tierce, Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought. If ye touch at the islands, Mr. Flask, beware of fornication.” Herman Melville
Molasses Leak, Flask Warning, Stubb Islands, Molasses, Warning, Islands
Herman Melville Molasses Leak, Flask Warning, Stubb Islands, Molasses, Warning, Islands“Now, in that Japanese sea, the days in summer are as freshets of effulgences. That unblinkingly vivid Japanese sun seems the blazing focus of the glassy ocean’s immeasurable burning-glass. The sky looks lacquered; clouds there are none; the horizon floats; and this nakedness of unrelieved radiance is as the insufferable splendors of God’s throne.” Herman Melville
Japanese Sea, Summer Days, God’s Throne, Nature, Splendor, Radiance
Herman Melville Japanese Sea, Summer Days, God’s Throne, Nature, Splendor, Radiance“Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden – what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!” Herman Melville
Natural State, Human Appearance, Tailor Artifice, Humanity, Civilization, Nature
Herman Melville Natural State, Human Appearance, Tailor Artifice, Humanity, Civilization, Nature“Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.” Herman Melville
Mystery Face, Infinite Spells, Time Space, Mystery, Spells, Time
Herman Melville Mystery Face, Infinite Spells, Time Space, Mystery, Spells, Time“It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.” Herman Melville
Secret Appearance, Inner Mystery, Human Facade, Secret, Mystery, Facade
Herman Melville Secret Appearance, Inner Mystery, Human Facade, Secret, Mystery, Facade“Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.” Herman Melville
Strength And Beauty, Real Strength, Harmony In Beauty, Strength’s Magic, Imposing Beauty, True Power
Herman Melville Strength And Beauty, Real Strength, Harmony In Beauty, Strength’s Magic, Imposing Beauty, True Power“My body is but the lees of my better being.” Herman Melville
Physical Form, Better Being, Body, Essence, Lees, Spirit
Herman Melville Physical Form, Better Being, Body, Essence, Lees, Spirit“A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.” Herman Melville
Education, Life’s Journey, Experience, Whale Ship, Wisdom, Learning
Herman Melville Education, Life’s Journey, Experience, Whale Ship, Wisdom, Learning“The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.” Herman Melville
Heart Ugliness, Invisible Beauty, True Loveliness, Heart, Beauty, Loveliness
Herman Melville Heart Ugliness, Invisible Beauty, True Loveliness, Heart, Beauty, Loveliness“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.” Herman Melville
Growing Old, Wisdom’s Mastery, Art Of Living, Aging Gracefully, Life’s Challenge, Old Age
Herman Melville Growing Old, Wisdom’s Mastery, Art Of Living, Aging Gracefully, Life’s Challenge, Old Age“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.” Herman Melville
Careful Disorder, True Method, Enterprises, Disorder, Method, Careful
Herman Melville Careful Disorder, True Method, Enterprises, Disorder, Method, Careful“That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true – not true, or undeveloped.” Herman Melville
Joy Sorrow, Mortal Truth, Undeveloped Man, Joy, Sorrow, Truth
Herman Melville Joy Sorrow, Mortal Truth, Undeveloped Man, Joy, Sorrow, Truth“Go to the meat-market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight take a tooth out of the cannibal’s jaw?” Herman Melville
Meat Market, Saturday Night, Cannibal Tooth, Market, Cannibal, Night
Herman Melville Meat Market, Saturday Night, Cannibal Tooth, Market, Cannibal, Night