But war is pain, and hate is woe.
Herman Melville
War Pain, Hate Woe, Conflict Reality, War, Pain, Hate
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“He’s no more afraid than the isle fort at Cattegat, put there to fight the Baltic with storm-lashed guns, on which the sea-salt cakes!” Herman Melville
Fearless Fort, Baltic Sea, Fort, Baltic, Fearless, Sea
Herman Melville Fearless Fort, Baltic Sea, Fort, Baltic, Fearless, Sea“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“How now in the contemplative evening of his days, the pious Bildad reconciled these things in the reminiscence, I do not know; but it did not seem to concern him much, and very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man’s religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another. This world pays dividends.” Herman Melville
Pious Bildad, Religion Practicality, Dividends Truth, Religion, Practicality, Dividends
Herman Melville Pious Bildad, Religion Practicality, Dividends Truth, Religion, Practicality, Dividends“This whole act’s immutably decreed. ‘Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates’ lieutenant; I act under orders.” Herman Melville
Fates Act, Immovable Decree, Ocean Role, Act, Fate, Orders
Herman Melville Fates Act, Immovable Decree, Ocean Role, Act, Fate, Orders“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.” Herman Melville
Sober Cannibal, Drunken Christian, Unlikely Preference, Cannibal, Christian, Preference
Herman Melville Sober Cannibal, Drunken Christian, Unlikely Preference, Cannibal, Christian, Preference“The truth was, I suppose, that a man of so small an income, could not afford to sport such a lustrous face and a lustrous coat at one and the same time.” Herman Melville
Income, Appearance, Vanity, Poverty, Social Status, Disadvantage
Herman Melville Income, Appearance, Vanity, Poverty, Social Status, Disadvantage“Oh! the metempsychosis! Oh! Pythagoras, that in bright Greece, two thousand years ago, did die, so good, so wise, so mild; I sailed with thee along the Peruvian coast last voyage – and, foolish as I am, taught thee, a green simple boy, how to splice a rope.” Herman Melville
Metempsychosis, Pythagoras’ Soul, Life After Death, Soul’s Journey, Ancient Wisdom, Spiritual Journey
Herman Melville Metempsychosis, Pythagoras’ Soul, Life After Death, Soul’s Journey, Ancient Wisdom, Spiritual Journey“And right in among those sharks was Queequeg; who often pushed them aside with his floundering feet. A thing altogether incredible were it not that attracted by such prey as a dead whale, the otherwise miscellaneously carnivorous shark will seldom touch a.” Herman Melville
Sharks Prey, Floundering Feet, Queequeg Attack, Sharks, Prey, Attack
Herman Melville Sharks Prey, Floundering Feet, Queequeg Attack, Sharks, Prey, Attack“Over Descartian vortices you” Herman Melville
Philosophy, Descartes, Vortices, Reflection, Consciousness, Mind
Herman Melville Philosophy, Descartes, Vortices, Reflection, Consciousness, Mind“And tell him to paint me a sign, with no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.” Herman Melville
Painted Sign, House Rules, Sign, Smoking, Suicides, Parlor
Herman Melville Painted Sign, House Rules, Sign, Smoking, Suicides, Parlor“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“But it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky; and the air smells now, as if it blew from a far-away meadow; they have been making hay somewhere under the slopes of the Andes, Starbuck, and the mowers are sleeping among the new-mown hay. Sleeping?” Herman Melville
Mild Wind, Gentle Breeze, Sleeping Hay, Andean Air, Quiet Sky, Peaceful Winds
Herman Melville Mild Wind, Gentle Breeze, Sleeping Hay, Andean Air, Quiet Sky, Peaceful Winds“For we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included.” Herman Melville
Killing, Humanity, Violence, War, Conflict, Nature
Herman Melville Killing, Humanity, Violence, War, Conflict, Nature“Oh, God! to sail with such a heathen crew that have small touch of human mothers in them! Whelped somewhere by the sharkish sea. The white whale is their demigorgon. Hark! the infernal orgies!” Herman Melville
Heathen Crew, Sea Creatures, Obsession, Human Nature, Irony, Madness
Herman Melville Heathen Crew, Sea Creatures, Obsession, Human Nature, Irony, Madness“And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.” Herman Melville
Obey God, Disobey Self, Hardness Obedience, Obey, Disobey, God
Herman Melville Obey God, Disobey Self, Hardness Obedience, Obey, Disobey, God“In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.” Herman Melville
New Bedford, Whale Dowers, Family Traditions, Whales, Dowers, Porpoises
Herman Melville New Bedford, Whale Dowers, Family Traditions, Whales, Dowers, Porpoises“In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.” Herman Melville
Obedience’s Pull, Command Authority, Time Of Peril, Rank And Obedience, Leadership Strength, Peril’s Guidance
Herman Melville Obedience’s Pull, Command Authority, Time Of Peril, Rank And Obedience, Leadership Strength, Peril’s Guidance“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