Give me a condor's quill Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand
More Quotes from Herman Melville:
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.Herman Melville
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy All noble things are touched with that.
Herman Melville
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
Herman Melville
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life.
Herman Melville
If I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace Is not my supper good.
Herman Melville
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
Herman Melville
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