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Herman Melville Quotes

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American Novelist, Writer, Poet August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891

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With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face--at least to my taste--his countenance yet had something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils. And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the... Herman Melville
In the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly pleasant—the mast-head; nay, to a dreamy meditative man it is delightful. There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea, even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes. Herman Melville
Herman Melville quote: "Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down..."
Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe. Herman Melville
Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore. Herman Melville
Herman Melville quote: "all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the..."
all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea Herman Melville
Herman Melville quote: "Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar..."
Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye Gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do. Herman Melville
Herman Melville quote: "Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories..."
Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs Herman Melville
Herman Melville quote: "Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him..."
Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will. Herman Melville
But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy. Herman Melville
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man. Herman Melville
Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air! Herman Melville

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