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Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.
– Herman Melville

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  3. I love youMy life stretched over a bridgeI need youMy life stretched over you – Kristian Goldmund Aumann
  4. When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville) – Marti Melville
  5. Memories are those endless treasures, which we can keep exploring till eternity and bask in their glory like a slow swinging hammock! – Balroop Singh
  6. There are people who can make love standing on a hammock, but it is not the easiest way. – Allen Carr
  7. [T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. – Herman Melville
  8. The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed. – Herman Melville
  9. [T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men. – Herman Melville
  10. To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. – Herman Melville
  11. I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. – Herman Melville
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  13. … an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. – Herman Melville
  14. … the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, – Herman Melville
  15. Come what will, one comfort’s always left -” that unfailing comfort is, it’s all predestinated. – Herman Melville
  16. A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. – Herman Melville
  17. 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
  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
  31. Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order. – Herman Melville
  32. …the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open… – Herman Melville
  33. All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. – Herman Melville
  34. All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. – Herman Melville
  35. She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale. – Stephen King
  36. Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won`t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. – Helen Rowland
  37. A man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  38. …then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer. – Anas Nin
  39. In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant. – Diane Setterfield
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