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Herman Melville
It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.
Herman Melville
Cultural Wisdom
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Domestic Simplicity
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Sensible Living
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American
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Englishman
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Simplicity
Herman Melville’s Quotes On Topics
Eye Perspective
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Subtle Emotion
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Dawn
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Worship
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Behavior
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Prison Solitude
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Long Islands
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Nature
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Edges
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Lessons
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Loyalty
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Weapon
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Divine Vision
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Governor
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Emotional Impact
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Whale-lines Perils
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Civilisation’s Mission
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Strange Thing
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Ship’s Motion
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Immense Remote
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More Herman Melville Quotes
“The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.”
Herman Melville
Mind Conquest
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Love Absence
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Conquest
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Love
,
Mind
,
Provinces
“My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.”
Herman Melville
Reason
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Madness
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Motivations
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Sanity
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Objectivity
,
Introspection
“The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!”
Herman Melville
Spiritual Beliefs
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Divine Equality
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Democracy
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Faith
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Omnipresence
,
Universal Truth
“If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.”
Herman Melville
Simple Joys
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Good Dinner
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Dinner
,
World
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Joys
,
Simple
“A man can be honest in any sort of skin.”
Herman Melville
Honest Nature
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Human Skin
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Honest
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Skin
,
Nature
,
Truth
“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
Herman Melville
Fiction Religion
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World Connection
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Imaginative Reality
,
Fiction
,
Religion
,
Reality
“Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.”
Herman Melville
Human Powers
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Power Abuse
,
Nature’s Gifts
,
Power
,
Abuse
,
Humanity
“Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.”
Herman Melville
Endless Pain
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Sailing Promise
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Strange Sights
,
Pain
,
Sailing
,
Promise
“He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.”
Herman Melville
Shared Courage
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Solitary Peril
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Comrade Consolation
,
Courage
,
Peril
,
Comrades
“Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be moored to one of the Moluccas. Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.”
Herman Melville
Lazarus
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Wealth
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Poverty
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Irony
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Social Critique
,
Morality
“In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?”
Herman Melville
Philosophy
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Exploration
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Eternity
,
Reflection
,
Worldview
,
Travel
“Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor.”
Herman Melville
Criticism
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Poverty
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Privilege
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Compassion
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Wealth
,
Empathy
“All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering.”
Herman Melville
Ancient Knowledge
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Discovery Worth
,
Timeless Truths
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Discovery
,
Worth
,
Knowledge
“You cannot hide the soul.”
Herman Melville
Hidden Soul
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True Nature
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Soul Visibility
,
Soul
,
Nature
,
Visibility
“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
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Wisdom’s Mastery
,
Art Of Living
,
Aging Gracefully
,
Life’s Challenge
,
Old Age
“It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.”
Herman Melville
Mental Clarity
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Emotional Balance
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Spleen Cure
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Way
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Driving
,
Circulation
“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
Herman Melville
Wanderlust
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Exploration
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Adventure
,
Freedom
,
Obsession
,
Risk
“We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.”
Herman Melville
Sea Voyage
,
Sail Set
,
Coral Anchor
,
Winds And Sails
,
Royal Journey
,
Sailing Off
“Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.”
Herman Melville
Death Transition
,
Strange Possibilities
,
Immense Remote
,
Death
,
Possibilities
,
Remote
“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”
Herman Melville
Wakeful Age
,
Life Death
,
Old Wisdom
,
Age
,
Life
,
Death
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