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“Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him.”

Quote by Herman Melville

Book:Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, During a Four Months' Residence in the Valley of the Marquesas

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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, During a Four Months' Residence in the Valley of the Marquesas

This book is a first-hand account of the author's time spent living with the indigenous people of the Marquesas Islands, offering insights into their culture, lifestyle, and daily routines. more

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville was a renowned 19th-century American novelist known for his profound psychological descriptions and unique literary style. His masterpiece, 'Moby-Dick', is considered a classic of American literature. more

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Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities

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Neat Neatness Niggard

Book:Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: Works of Melville

Source: Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: Works of Melville

“Twelve o'clock! It is the natural centre, key-stone, and very heart of the day. At that hour, the sun has arrived at the top of his hill; and as he seems to hang poised there a while, before coming down on the other side, it is but reasonable to suppose that he is then stopping to dine; setting an eminent example to all mankind.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.”

Men Heart Literature Brain Present Day Hawthorne

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.”

Men Mind Catholic Arbitrary Picnics

Book:Works: Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver

Source: Works: Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver

“It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.”

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Book:Herman Melville The Dover Reader

Source: Herman Melville The Dover Reader

“Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.”

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Book:Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

Source: Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

“To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.”

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Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities