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Herman Melville Quotes
«Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.»
«For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!»
«From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.»
«Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory / the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Allegories, allegory, comprehended, pygmies, Pygmy
«He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.»
«This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it.»