Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.
Herman Melville
Cultivation Of Grace, Artistic Nature, Spiritual Charity, Selflessness, Poetry, Gracefulness
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More Herman Melville Quotes
“The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.” Herman Melville
Dinner Hour, Day’s Summer, Supper Autumn, Food, Time, Seasons
Herman Melville Dinner Hour, Day’s Summer, Supper Autumn, Food, Time, Seasons“Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.” Herman Melville
Faith And Fact, Belief System, Self-reflection, Spirituality, Personal Growth, Truth
Herman Melville Faith And Fact, Belief System, Self-reflection, Spirituality, Personal Growth, Truth“Pierre little foresaw that this world hath a secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death.” Herman Melville
World Secret, Life Burdens, Beauty Depth, World, Life, Beauty
Herman Melville World Secret, Life Burdens, Beauty Depth, World, Life, Beauty“Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands. So, too, it is, that in these resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of all storms, the Typhoon. It will sometimes burst from out that cloudless sky, like an exploding bomb upon a dazed and sleepy town.” Herman Melville
Nature’s Power, Storms, Typhoon, Tropical Climates, Danger, Beauty
Herman Melville Nature’s Power, Storms, Typhoon, Tropical Climates, Danger, Beauty“This slavery breeds ugly passions in man.” Herman Melville
Slavery Passions, Ugly Passions, Human Slavery, Slavery, Passions, Humanity
Herman Melville Slavery Passions, Ugly Passions, Human Slavery, Slavery, Passions, Humanity“The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.” Herman Melville
Deemed Dead, Ghost Feeling, Consciousness Paradox, Dead, Ghost, Consciousness
Herman Melville Deemed Dead, Ghost Feeling, Consciousness Paradox, Dead, Ghost, Consciousness“Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.” Herman Melville
Happiness, Misery, Light, Darkness, Deception, Truth
Herman Melville Happiness, Misery, Light, Darkness, Deception, Truth“Over Descartian vortices you” Herman Melville
Philosophy, Descartes, Vortices, Reflection, Consciousness, Mind
Herman Melville Philosophy, Descartes, Vortices, Reflection, Consciousness, Mind“In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations.” Herman Melville
Emotional Strength, Human Nature, Emotional Wisdom, Inner Power, Reactions, Mindset
Herman Melville Emotional Strength, Human Nature, Emotional Wisdom, Inner Power, Reactions, Mindset“Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules.” Herman Melville
Squeeze, Madness, Labor, Insanity, Work, Obsession
Herman Melville Squeeze, Madness, Labor, Insanity, Work, Obsession“Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.” Herman Melville
Wine, Friendship, Loneliness, Irony, Life’s Struggles, Society
Herman Melville Wine, Friendship, Loneliness, Irony, Life’s Struggles, Society“The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.” Herman Melville
Humor And Depth, Hidden Qualities, Personality Traits, Wisdom, Laughter, Character
Herman Melville Humor And Depth, Hidden Qualities, Personality Traits, Wisdom, Laughter, Character“I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.” Herman Melville
Cunning Motives, Disguised Choice, Judgment Illusion, Motives, Choice, Judgment
Herman Melville Cunning Motives, Disguised Choice, Judgment Illusion, Motives, Choice, Judgment“Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will.” Herman Melville
Human Nature, Depth, Perception, Understanding, Complexity, Judgment
Herman Melville Human Nature, Depth, Perception, Understanding, Complexity, Judgment“Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.” Herman Melville
Natural Cycles, Seasonal Truths, Spring Renewal, Wag, Leaves, Spring
Herman Melville Natural Cycles, Seasonal Truths, Spring Renewal, Wag, Leaves, Spring“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“Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.” Herman Melville
Hell Concept, Apple Dumpling, Philosophical Humor, Hell, Humor, Ideas
Herman Melville Hell Concept, Apple Dumpling, Philosophical Humor, Hell, Humor, Ideas“Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.” Herman Melville
Spiritual Reflection, Oysters Analogy, Water Vision, Spiritual, Reflection, Water
Herman Melville Spiritual Reflection, Oysters Analogy, Water Vision, Spiritual, Reflection, Water“Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.” Herman Melville
Rainbow Colors, Sanity Insanity, Color Difference, Rainbow, Sanity, Colors
Herman Melville Rainbow Colors, Sanity Insanity, Color Difference, Rainbow, Sanity, Colors