Frases de Herman Melville (172 citas, página 5)

Benito Cereno, Putnam's Monthly ( October 1855 http://books.google.com/books?id=TlYAAAAAYAAJ&q=%22In+armies+navies+cities+or+families+in+nature+herself+nothing+more+relaxes+good+order+than+misery%22&pg=PA356#v=onepage)

“But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.”

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Herman Melville libro Pierre: or, The Ambiguities

Bk. V, ch. 7
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852)

“In war-time on the field or in the fleet, a mortal punishment decreed by a drum-head court — on the field sometimes decreed by but a nod from the General — follows without delay on the heel of conviction without appeal.”

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Herman Melville libro Billy Budd, Sailor

Fuente: Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891), Ch. 21

“Though public libraries have an imposing air, and doubtless contain invaluable volumes, yet, somehow, the books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound in much.”

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Herman Melville libro White-Jacket

Fuente: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 41

“Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.”

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Herman Melville libro White-Jacket

Fuente: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 7

“It is — or seems to be — a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it.”

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Letter to Samuel Savage (24 August 1851), as published in The Writings of Herman Melville : The Northwestern-Newberry Edition (1993), edited by Lynn Horth, Vol. 14, p. 203

“I found that but to glean after this man, is better than to be in at the harvest of others.”

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Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)

“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.”

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Herman Melville libro Bartleby, the Scrivener

Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)

“Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.”

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Herman Melville libro Pierre: or, The Ambiguities

Bk. XXV, ch. 4
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852)

“Indolence is heaven’s ally here,
And energy the child of hell:
The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear
But brims the poisoned well.”

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Timoleon, Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the Twelfth Century, Fragment 2

“It was not a very white jacket, but white enough, in all conscience, as the sequel will show.
The way I came by it was this…”

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Herman Melville libro White-Jacket

Fuente: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 1, First lines

“In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, — even though it be covertly, and by snatches.”

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Since at least 1954 this has also been published at times as "Truth is forced to fly like a sacred white doe…", apparently a typographical error.
Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)

“You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.”

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Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)

“Says a writer whom few know, "Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it. Much so with respect to other emergencies involving considerations both practical and moral, and when it is imperative promptly to act."”

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Herman Melville libro Billy Budd, Sailor

This statement is usually attributed entirely to Melville, but the way he presents it in the story indicates that he might be quoting a lesser known author.
Fuente: Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891), Ch. 21

“In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.”

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Herman Melville libro White-Jacket

Fuente: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 27

“Billy's agony, mainly proceeding from a generous young heart's virgin experience of the diabolical incarnate and effective in some men — the tension of that agony was over now.”

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Herman Melville libro Billy Budd, Sailor

Fuente: Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891), Ch. 24

“Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.”

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Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)

“It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.”

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Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)

“Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.”

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Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 1851); published in Memories of Hawthorne (1897) by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, p. 158

“It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers, — it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small. Let us believe it, then, once for all, that there is no hope for us in these smooth pleasing writers that know their powers.”

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Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)

“And do not think, my boy, that because I, impulsively broke forth in jubillations over Shakspeare, that, therefore, I am of the number of the snobs who burn their tuns of rancid fat at his shrine. No, I would stand afar off & alone, & burn some pure Palm oil, the product of some overtopping trunk.”

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I would to God Shakspeare had lived later, & promenaded in Broadway. Not that I might have had the pleasure of leaving my card for him at the Astor, or made merry with him over a bowl of the fine Duyckinck punch; but that the muzzle which all men wore on their soul in the Elizebethan day, might not have intercepted Shakspers full articulations. For I hold it a verity, that even Shakspeare, was not a frank man to the uttermost. And, indeed, who in this intolerant universe is, or can be? But the Declaration of Independence makes a difference.—There, I have driven my horse so hard that I have made my inn before sundown.
Letter to Evert Augustus Duyckinck (3 March 1849); published in The Letters of Herman Melville (1960) edited by Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman, p. 79