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Herman Melville Quotes

"All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea""With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, though readily enough he could hide it; apprehending the good, but powerless to be it a varnish of conventionalities hiding his barbaric core""Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it""Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope""To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another""There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke""Oh, miserable man! What a deformed monster this is""A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard""I know not all that may be coming but be it what it will I'll go to it laughing""There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method""It is not down in any map true places never are""To the last I grapple with thee from hell’s heart I stab at thee for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee""We cannot live only for ourselves A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men""Call me Ishmael.""Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian""A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things""It is not down on any map true places never are""Hope is the struggle of the soul breaking loose from what is perishable and attesting her eternity""There is a wisdom that is woe but there is a woe that is madness""Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges"