images far swifter than these sentences
Herman Melvilleall was eclipsed in sinister muteness
Herman MelvilleThis slavery breeds ugly passions in man.
Herman Melvillethe king of kind hearts and polite fellows
Herman MelvilleNature cared not a jot.
Herman MelvilleHis mind swarmed with superstitious suspicions.
Herman MelvilleThere is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable affliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid- what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
Herman MelvilleIn what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are include...how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living Earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam, who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumour of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city. All these things are not without their meanings.
Herman MelvilleI promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.
Herman Melville...what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!
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