When you think what someone thinks & do what they do, you'll find that you'll produce a similar result. - Marshall Sylver
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one. - Herman Melville
By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. - Herman Melville
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. - Herman Melville
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. - 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
Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. - Herman Melville
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. - Herman Melville
How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg -- a cozy, loving pair. - 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
I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him. - Herman Melville
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least. - Herman Melville
I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. - Herman Melville
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