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Results of search for Author: Herman Melville - Page 1 of 2 Showing results 1 to 10 of 19 total quotations found.
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

Results from Classic Quotes:

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
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When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), "Moby Dick"
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
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.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), Moby Dick, 1851

Results from Cole's Quotables:

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), Moby Dick

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