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«There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
careful, disorderliness, enterprises, method
«It is not down in any map; true places never are.»
«There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts
«Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
alike, cracked, dreadfully, mending, mercy, pagans, Presbyterian, Presbyterians, sadly, somehow
«Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor»
«We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.»
«Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.»
«God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
feeds, feed upon, intense, Prometheus, The Vulture, vulture
«Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored...»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
immense, launching, region, region of, remote, salutation, salutations, The Strange, The Wild, untried, watery
«They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
at leisure, dignities, dignity, leisure, talk of
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