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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,

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.

Herman Melville
Art, Lying, White
Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.613, Northwestern University Press

For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.

Herman Melville
Lying, Ocean, Men
Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.308, Velvet Element Books

Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

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Mother, Lying, Soul
Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.460

Honor lies in the mane of a horse.

Herman Melville
Horse, Lying, Honor

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

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Beautiful, Lying, Reality
Herman Melville (2015). “Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville”, p.214, 谷月社

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.

Herman Melville
Morning, Couple, Lying
Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.58, Velvet Element Books

There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.

Herman Melville
Lying, Men, Europe
Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.186, Northwestern University Press

Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?

Herman Melville
Lying, Finals, Harbors
Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.

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

We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points Himself. We mortals astonish Him as much as He us. But it is this Being of the matter; there lies the knot with which we choke ourselves. As soon as you say Me, a God, a Nature, so soon you jump off from your stool and hang from the beam. Yes, that word is the hangman. Take God out of the dictionary, and you would have Him in the street.

Herman Melville
Lying, Thinking, Secret
Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4889, Delphi Classics

What troops Of generous boys in happiness thus bred Saturnians through life's Tempe led, Went from the North and came from the South, With golden mottoes in the mouth, To lie down midway on a bloody bed.

Herman Melville
Lying, Boys, Bed
Herman Melville, Douglas Robillard (2000). “The Poems of Herman Melville”, p.131, Kent State University Press

Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where is the foundling’s father hidden? Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

Herman Melville
Mother, Father, Lying
Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.337, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.

Herman Melville
Lying, Book, Giving
Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.481, Velvet Element Books

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