What could be more full of meaning?-for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear; the pulpit leads the world.
("Moby-Dick")
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There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.Herman Melville
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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.
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It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
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Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward worldly ties and connections?
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They think me mad--Starbuck does but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself
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