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To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.

To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.
– Herman Melville

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  3. She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale. – Stephen King
  4. So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me. – Herman Melville
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  8. [T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. – Herman Melville
  9. The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed. – Herman Melville
  10. [T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men. – Herman Melville
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  13. You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world. – Herman Melville
  14. … an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. – Herman Melville
  15. … the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, – Herman Melville
  16. Come what will, one comfort’s always left -” that unfailing comfort is, it’s all predestinated. – Herman Melville
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  18. Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor – Herman Melville
  19. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing. – Herman Melville
  20. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. – Herman Melville
  21. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts. – Herman Melville
  22. For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. – Herman Melville
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  24. Ignorance is the parent of fear … – Herman Melville
  25. Thy silence, then that voices thee. – Herman Melville
  26. I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty. – Herman Melville
  27. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. – Herman Melville
  28. War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war’s made less grand than peace. – Herman Melville
  29. Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time? – Herman Melville
  30. Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time? – Herman Melville
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  32. …the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open… – Herman Melville
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  38. Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion. – Criss Jami
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  40. Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible. – Dejan Stojanovic

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