At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor. - Herman Melville
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. - Herman Melville
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. - Herman Melville
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? - Herman Melville
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning. - Herman Melville
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. - Herman Melville
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run. - Herman Melville
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. - Herman Melville
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. - Herman Melville
They think me mad--Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself! - Herman Melville
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