"A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come to us as effects." ~Herman Melville
"Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay, but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none." ~from "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) by Herman Melville (1819-91)
"Art is the objectification of feeling." ~Herman Melville
“For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.” ~Herman Melville on Literature
"Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way?" ~Herman Melville, MOBY DICK from Everyman's Library
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." ~Herman Melville
"It is not down in any map, true places never are." ~Herman Melville
"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses,—for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it." Herman Melville (1819-1891)
"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke." ~Herman Melville (1819-1891)
“There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about the sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.” ~Herman Melville
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." ~Heman Melville
"You were with me all day; stood with me, sat with me, talked with me, looked at me, ate with me, drank with me; and yet, your last act was to clutch for a monster, not only an innocent man, but the most pitiable of all men. So far may even the best man err, in judging the conduct of one with the recesses of whose condition he is not acquainted." ~Herman Melville
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