if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned.
Herman MelvilleOh, horrible vultureism of earth! from which not the mightiest whale is free.
Herman MelvilleWoe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness.
Herman MelvilleWhat could be more full of meaning?—for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favourable winds. Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.
Herman MelvilleI believe that much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul. I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
Herman MelvilleNot so much thy skill, then, O hunter, as the great necessities that strike the victory to thee!
Herman MelvilleNever dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp - all others but liars!
Herman MelvilleWhat is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.
Herman Melville...there is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.
Herman MelvilleIn man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority.
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