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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

Herman Melville
God, Remember, Endeavour
Herman Melville (1952). “Moby Dick: Or, The Whale”

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Herman Melville
God, Fashion, Heart
Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.374

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

Herman Melville
God, Eye, Sea
1851 Captain Ahab. Moby Dick, ch.132.

The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.

Herman Melville
God, Men, Forever
Herman Melville (1971). “Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition”, p.259, Northwestern University Press

Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever other worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this; for else this world would seem to give the lie to Him; so utterly repugnant seem its ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven.

Herman Melville
God, Lying, Ideas
Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.272, Herman Melville

Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.

Herman Melville
God, Law, Joy
'Moby Dick' (1851) ch. 1

The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

Herman Melville
God, Democracy, Divine
Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Walter E. Bezanson (1991). “Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land”, p.606, Northwestern University Press

I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

Herman Melville
God, Broken, Feelings
Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.212, Northwestern University Press

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