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Quote by Herman Melville

“Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.”

Quote by Herman Melville

Book:Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

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Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

Mardi: And a Voyage Thither is an 18th-century novel that takes readers on an adventurous journey through the South Seas. The story follows the protagonist's experiences with various cultures and landscapes, offering a rich exploration of the exotic and the unknown. 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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“The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.”

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Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.”

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Source: Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile

“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”

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“There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.”

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Source: The Confidence-man: His Masquerade

“The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.”

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Book:Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

Source: Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

“As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.”

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Book:White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war

Source: White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war

“The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!”

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Source: Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land

“Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.”

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Author:Herman Melville

“Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?”

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