To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, and which sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.
Herman Melville
Agitated Temperaments, Exasperating Behavior, Self-Control, Behavior, Temperament, Self-Control
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“Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony , but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.” Herman Melville
Strength, Beauty, Harmony, Magic, Power, Balance
Herman Melville Strength, Beauty, Harmony, Magic, Power, Balance“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, Domestic Simplicity, Sensible Living, American, Englishman, Simplicity
Herman Melville Cultural Wisdom, Domestic Simplicity, Sensible Living, American, Englishman, Simplicity“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn.” Herman Melville
Sultan Moons, Saturn Seat, Moons Seat, Saturn, Moons, Seat
Herman Melville Sultan Moons, Saturn Seat, Moons Seat, Saturn, Moons, Seat“We become sad in the first place because we have nothing stirring to do.” Herman Melville
Emotional Struggles, Human Nature, Sadness, Boredom, Life Purpose, Loneliness
Herman Melville Emotional Struggles, Human Nature, Sadness, Boredom, Life Purpose, Loneliness“For though I tried to move his arm – unlock his bridegroom clasp – yet, sleeping as he was, he still hugged me tightly, as though naught but death should part us twain.” Herman Melville
Love And Death, Eternal Bond, Deep Emotions, Intimacy, Connection, Loyalty
Herman Melville Love And Death, Eternal Bond, Deep Emotions, Intimacy, Connection, Loyalty“Nature is nobody’s ally.” Herman Melville
Nature Ally, Neutrality Truth, Natural Forces, Nature, Ally, Neutrality
Herman Melville Nature Ally, Neutrality Truth, Natural Forces, Nature, Ally, Neutrality“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.” Herman Melville
Traveling Sin, Virtue Poverty, Sin, Virtue, Poverty, Frontiers
Herman Melville Traveling Sin, Virtue Poverty, Sin, Virtue, Poverty, Frontiers“In a continuous line from that peninsula stretch the long islands of Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor; which, with many others, form a vast mole, or rampart, lengthwise connecting Asia with Australia, and dividing the long unbroken Indian ocean from the thickly studded oriental archipelagoes.” Herman Melville
Asian Geography, Ocean Division, Long Islands, Geography, Asia, Islands
Herman Melville Asian Geography, Ocean Division, Long Islands, Geography, Asia, Islands“In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.” Herman Melville
Faithful Friend, True Friendship, Security In Relationships, Friendship, Trust, Loyalty
Herman Melville Faithful Friend, True Friendship, Security In Relationships, Friendship, Trust, Loyalty“He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.” Herman Melville
Friendship, Loyalty, Brotherhood, Shared Experience, Companionship, Courage
Herman Melville Friendship, Loyalty, Brotherhood, Shared Experience, Companionship, Courage“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“Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.” Herman Melville
Grief Joy, Christianity Depth, Emotional Understanding, Grief, Joy, Christianity
Herman Melville Grief Joy, Christianity Depth, Emotional Understanding, Grief, Joy, Christianity“Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.” Herman Melville
Death, Tyranny, Humanity, Morality, Irony, Compassion
Herman Melville Death, Tyranny, Humanity, Morality, Irony, Compassion“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“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“An uncommon prudence is habitual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.” Herman Melville
Uncommon Prudence, Subtle Depravity, Prudence’s Habit, Hidden Truths, Deceptive Wisdom, Cunning Disguise
Herman Melville Uncommon Prudence, Subtle Depravity, Prudence’s Habit, Hidden Truths, Deceptive Wisdom, Cunning Disguise“Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.” Herman Melville
Cool Thinking, Calmness Brains, Heart Throbs, Thinking, Calmness, Throbs
Herman Melville Cool Thinking, Calmness Brains, Heart Throbs, Thinking, Calmness, Throbs“Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.” Herman Melville
Ancient Spirit, Christianity Germs, Historical Values, Ancients, Christianity, Spirit
Herman Melville Ancient Spirit, Christianity Germs, Historical Values, Ancients, Christianity, Spirit“Is, then, the crown too heavy that I wear? This Iron Crown of Lombardy. Yet it is bright with many a gem; I, the wearer, see not its far flashings; but darkly feel that I wear that, that dazzling confounds. ‘Tis Iron – that I know – not gold.” Herman Melville
Crown’s Weight, Iron Crown, Lombardy Crown, Dazzling Crown, Wearer’s Burden, Golden Illusion
Herman Melville Crown’s Weight, Iron Crown, Lombardy Crown, Dazzling Crown, Wearer’s Burden, Golden Illusion