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Herman Melville19 quotes
There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men. — Herman Melville · 1851By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike. — Herman Melville · 1851All collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. — Herman Melville · 1851Aye, toil we how we may, we all sleep at last on the field. Sleep? Aye, and rust amid greenness; as last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swaths. — Herman Melville · 1851And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out. — Herman Melville · 1851Thou art as a lion of the waters and as a dragon of the sea. — Herman Melville · 1851All 19 quotes →