Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
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
He says NO in thunder but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman Melville
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
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When I think of this life I have led the desolation of solitude it has been the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without -- oh, weariness heaviness Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command
Herman Melville
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
Herman Melville
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