See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
Herman Melville
Prejudices, Love, Growth, Emotional Flexibility, Change, Compassion
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More Herman Melville Quotes
“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.” Herman Melville
Earnest Aggravation, Passive Resistance, Frustrated Efforts, Resistance, Efforts, Frustration
Herman Melville Earnest Aggravation, Passive Resistance, Frustrated Efforts, Resistance, Efforts, Frustration“I am madness maddened! That wild madness that’s only calm to comprehend itself.” Herman Melville
Madness Comprehension, Wild Calmness, Inner Turmoil, Madness, Calmness, Turmoil
Herman Melville Madness Comprehension, Wild Calmness, Inner Turmoil, Madness, Calmness, Turmoil“Think of it. To go down to posterity as a ‘man who lived among the cannibals.’” Herman Melville
Posterity, Cultural Immersion, Cannibalism, Adventure, Legacy, Exploration
Herman Melville Posterity, Cultural Immersion, Cannibalism, Adventure, Legacy, Exploration“Immortality is but ubiquity in time.” Herman Melville
Immortality, Time And Existence, Timelessness, Eternity, Philosophy, Life After Death
Herman Melville Immortality, Time And Existence, Timelessness, Eternity, Philosophy, Life After Death“With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements; but 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
Forbidden Seas, Remote Itch, Adventurous Spirit, Seas, Remote, Adventurous
Herman Melville Forbidden Seas, Remote Itch, Adventurous Spirit, Seas, Remote, Adventurous“And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us.” Herman Melville
Paying Paid, Orchard Thieves, Uncomfortable Infliction, Paying, Paid, Thieves
Herman Melville Paying Paid, Orchard Thieves, Uncomfortable Infliction, Paying, Paid, Thieves“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, World Connection, Imaginative Reality, Fiction, Religion, Reality
Herman Melville Fiction Religion, World Connection, Imaginative Reality, Fiction, Religion, Reality“Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.” Herman Melville
Old Maid, Foolish Husband, Wise Reflection, Maid, Husband, Wise
Herman Melville Old Maid, Foolish Husband, Wise Reflection, Maid, Husband, Wise“From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.” Herman Melville
Ahab’s Grief, Personal Loss, Emotional Depth, Tragedy, Sea, Wealth
Herman Melville Ahab’s Grief, Personal Loss, Emotional Depth, Tragedy, Sea, Wealth“In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.” Herman Melville
Death Pursuit, Life Stages, Bold Leader, Death, Life, Leader
Herman Melville Death Pursuit, Life Stages, Bold Leader, Death, Life, Leader“Like a savage tigress that tossing in the jungle overlays her own cubs, so the sea dashes even the mightiest whales against the rocks, and leaves them there side by side with the split wrecks of ships. No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.” Herman Melville
Sea, Nature, Power, Violence, Survival, Chaos
Herman Melville Sea, Nature, Power, Violence, Survival, Chaos“But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatobooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians, and Brighggians, and besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft which unheeded reel about the streets, you will see other sights still more curious, certainly more comical.” Herman Melville
Wild Specimens, Comical Sights, Curious Streets, Specimens, Sights, Streets
Herman Melville Wild Specimens, Comical Sights, Curious Streets, Specimens, Sights, Streets“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.” Herman Melville
Truth, Honesty, Reality, Philosophy, Life’s Struggle, Integrity
Herman Melville Truth, Honesty, Reality, Philosophy, Life’s Struggle, Integrity“In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.” Herman Melville
Angels Paradise, Night Visions, Spermaceti Angels, Angels, Night, Paradise
Herman Melville Angels Paradise, Night Visions, Spermaceti Angels, Angels, Night, Paradise“Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.” Herman Melville
Man Boy, Lived Remember, Life Memory, Man, Boy, Life
Herman Melville Man Boy, Lived Remember, Life Memory, Man, Boy, Life“The devil fetch ya, ya ragamuffin rapscallions; ye are all asleep.” Herman Melville
Morality And Chaos, Good Vs Evil, Sloth, Human Nature, Rebellion, Inner Battles
Herman Melville Morality And Chaos, Good Vs Evil, Sloth, Human Nature, Rebellion, Inner Battles“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.” Herman Melville
Uncharitable Suspicion, Misread Wisdom, False Judgment, Suspicion, Wisdom, Judgment
Herman Melville Uncharitable Suspicion, Misread Wisdom, False Judgment, Suspicion, Wisdom, Judgment“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“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