Give him a good ducking, anyhow.
-But he'd crawl back.
Duck him again; and keep ducking him.
-Suppose he should take it into his head to duck you, though—yes, and drown you—what then?
All mortal greatness is but disease.
Herman Melvilleif some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. events, not books, should be forbid.
Herman MelvilleVengeance 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 MelvilleIt is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.
Herman Melvilleما أشد ما أحتقر الأرض ذات الحواجز والإتاوات والجوازات! تلك الطريق العامة التي خدّدتها نعال العبودية وحوافرها! وتحوّلتُ إلى الإعجاب بعظمة البحر الذي لا تنطبع فيه آثار.
Herman Melvilleإذ أن ذروة السرور في لذة الدفء هي أن لا يفصل بينك أنت وما تهوّم فيه من جمام وبين برد الهواء في الخارج شيء سوى البطانية. عندئذ تستلقي كأنك قبس دافيء في جوف بلورة قطبية.
Herman MelvilleHere was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is - which was the only way he could get there - thrown among people as strange to him as though he were in the planet Jupiter; and yet he seemed entirely at his ease; preserving the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship; always equal to himself. Surely his was a touch of fine philosophy; though no doubt he had never heard there was such a thing as that. But, perhaps, to be a true philosopher, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so striving. So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have 'broken his digester.
Herman MelvilleI shall leave the world, I feel, with more satisfaction for having come to know you. Knowing you persuades me more than the Bible of our immortality
Herman Melvilleغير أن من عَلَتْ سِنُّه يظل صاحيا يأبى الرقاد. كأن المرء كلما طالت صلته بالحياة نفر من ممارسة أي شيء يشبه رقدة الموت.
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