Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
("Moby-Dick")
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It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.Herman Melville
Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
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So man's insanity is heaven's sense and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
Herman Melville
I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
Herman Melville
And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
Herman Melville
In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
Herman Melville
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