There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
More Quotes from Herman Melville:
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.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
Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe but there is a woe that is madness.
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
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
Herman Melville
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