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«All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
conspire, conspires, Conspiring, deep sea, earnest, intrepid, slavish, treacherous, wildest
«He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.»
«There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
cloister, cloistered, confounded, confounding, confounds, fair-mindedness, fairmindedness, go together, narrowness, partisan, partisans, patriotism, serviceable, trimmed, trimming, trimmings, trims
«The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.»
«A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.»
«Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
account, bringing, bringing up, bring off, coffin, coffins, damp, damps, deliberately, drizzly, funeral, grim, hand to mouth, hats, high hand, high sea, high time, involuntarily, knocking, knockings, knock off, moral principle, November, pausing, prevent, rear, rearing, rears, stepping, upper, uppers, upper hand, warehouse, warehouses
«..fiery yearnings their own phantom-futures make, and deem it present. So, after all these fearful, fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained - - yet, in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.»
«So philosophers so throughly comprehend us as horses.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Horses
| Keywords:
comprehend, horses, philosophers
«He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great.»
«Yet habit--strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?»
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