Herman Melville Quotes about Water

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If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

Herman Melville

Wine, Luxury, Water

Herman Melville (1855). “Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile”, p.76

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

Herman Melville

Water, Meditation, Reverie

Herman Melville (2002). “Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic”, p.13, Spinner Publications

Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.

Herman Melville

Names, Oil, Water

Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.53, Velvet Element Books

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle , and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?

Herman Melville

Sea, Land, Water

Herman Melville (2012). “Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.301, Jazzybee Verlag