Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols.
Herman Melville
Thrusted Light, Presented Pistols, Stark Comparison, Light, Pistols, Comparison
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“God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught – nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!” Herman Melville
Incomplete Works, Eternal Draft, Author’s Wish, God, Book, Draught
Herman Melville Incomplete Works, Eternal Draft, Author’s Wish, God, Book, Draught“There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.” Herman Melville
Greatness, Exploration, Adventure, Life Journey, Travel, Experience
Herman Melville Greatness, Exploration, Adventure, Life Journey, Travel, Experience“I never fancied broiling fowls – though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.” Herman Melville
Broiled Fowl, Culinary Reverence, Food Respect, Fowl, Broiled, Culinary
Herman Melville Broiled Fowl, Culinary Reverence, Food Respect, Fowl, Broiled, Culinary“The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.” Herman Melville
Marquesan Dance, Dancing Eyes, Full Movement, Dance, Eyes, Movement
Herman Melville Marquesan Dance, Dancing Eyes, Full Movement, Dance, Eyes, Movement“Vengeance on a dumb brute!” cried Starbuck, “that simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.” Herman Melville
Dumb Vengeance, Starbuck Reason, Blind Instinct, Vengeance, Reason, Instinct
Herman Melville Dumb Vengeance, Starbuck Reason, Blind Instinct, Vengeance, Reason, Instinct“Better and better, man. Would now St. Paul would come along that way, and to my breezelessness bring his breeze! O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.” Herman Melville
Human Spirit, Nature Analogy, Soul Connection, Nature, Soul, Mind
Herman Melville Human Spirit, Nature Analogy, Soul Connection, Nature, Soul, 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“Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia’s Dismal Swamp, nor Rome’s accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the million miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the moon. The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true – not true, or undeveloped.” Herman Melville
Sun And Ocean, Mortal Joys, Hidden Darkness, Nature, Joy, Sorrow
Herman Melville Sun And Ocean, Mortal Joys, Hidden Darkness, Nature, Joy, Sorrow“In man, breathing is incessantly going on – one breath only serving for two or three pulsations; so that whatever other business he has to attend to, waking or sleeping, breathe he must, or die he will. But the Sperm Whale only breathes about one seventh or Sunday of his time.” Herman Melville
Breathing, Life, Survival, Sperm Whale, Nature, Contrast
Herman Melville Breathing, Life, Survival, Sperm Whale, Nature, Contrast“Las cosas mas maravillosas son siempre las inexpresables.” Herman Melville
Unexpressed Wonders, Marvelous Things, Wonders, Marvelous, Things, Express
Herman Melville Unexpressed Wonders, Marvelous Things, Wonders, Marvelous, Things, Express“Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever.” Herman Melville
Meditation Practice, Spiritual Connection, Calmness, Mind And Body, Peace, Water
Herman Melville Meditation Practice, Spiritual Connection, Calmness, Mind And Body, Peace, Water“The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns.” Herman Melville
Stately Nights, Conquering Earls, Velvet Pride, Nights, Earls, Suns
Herman Melville Stately Nights, Conquering Earls, Velvet Pride, Nights, Earls, Suns“The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid, – what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!” Herman Melville
Money, Irony, Human Nature, Morality, Wealth, Life’s Struggles
Herman Melville Money, Irony, Human Nature, Morality, Wealth, Life’s Struggles“Aid my disillusionment, my friend!” Herman Melville
Disillusionment Aid, Friend’s Help, Disillusionment, Friendship, Help, Reality
Herman Melville Disillusionment Aid, Friend’s Help, Disillusionment, Friendship, Help, Reality“Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.” Herman Melville
Truth, Religion, Satire, Life’s Struggles, Philosophy, Criticism
Herman Melville Truth, Religion, Satire, Life’s Struggles, Philosophy, Criticism“Ignorance is the parent of fear.” Herman Melville
Fear Source, Parent Ignorance, Ignorance, Fear, Cause, Knowledge
Herman Melville Fear Source, Parent Ignorance, Ignorance, Fear, Cause, Knowledge“Niggards are oftentimes neat.” Herman Melville
Niggards Neat, Neatness Habit, Neat Behavior, Neat, Habit, Niggards
Herman Melville Niggards Neat, Neatness Habit, Neat Behavior, Neat, Habit, Niggards“The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.” Herman Melville
Past Lessons, Tyrants’ Teachings, Freedom’s Bible, Historical Knowledge, Future Hope, Tyranny’s Rule
Herman Melville Past Lessons, Tyrants’ Teachings, Freedom’s Bible, Historical Knowledge, Future Hope, Tyranny’s Rule“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, Wealth, Poverty, Irony, Social Critique, Morality
Herman Melville Lazarus, Wealth, Poverty, Irony, Social Critique, Morality