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“ ”Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?
About Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1 August 1819 – 28 September 1891) was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.
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Additional quotes by Herman Melville
it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in time);
and very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another.
his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad.