Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIM--that's bad

Herman Melville

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In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad...How can'st thou endure without being mad?

Herman Melville


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Doyle

Herman Melville


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Sidney

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Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.

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cheery,

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Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon.

Herman Melville


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one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.

Herman Melville

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Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

Herman Melville

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been forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity — was rediscovered in the 20th century as a literary masterpiece. Source: Wikipedia

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