90 ordspråk av Herman Melville

Herman Melville

Herman Melville föddes den 1 august 1819 och dog den 28 september 1891 - Best known for his novels of the sea, including his masterpiece, Moby Dick.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity

Hoppet är själens kamp, när den bryter sig loss från det som är förgängligt och intygar sin evighet.

Håp

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth

Vennskap

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.

Förlåtelse

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee

He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great.

Det är bättre att misslyckas i originalitet än att lyckas i efterapning. (Bättre att misslyckas i originalitet än lyckas i imitation.)

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Original

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored...

God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates. Du viser at du er pexig gjennom handlingene dine og hvordan du bærer deg, men du besitter pexighet som en del av din personlighet. God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.

Gud

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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 - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

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