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When Beholding The Tranquil Beauty And Brilliancy Of The Ocean's Skin, One Forgets The Tiger Heart That Pants Beneath I
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When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's
skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would
not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a
remorseless fang.
-- Herman Melville,
"Moby Dick", Datalinks
Related:
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
-- Herman Melville (1819-1891) "Moby Dick" (1851)...
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
-- Herman Melville (1819-1891), "Moby Dick...
Speak, thou vast and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosse
speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee....
Speak, thou vast and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosse
peak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee....
Q: What's six foot long, grey and floats in the ocean? A: Moby's dick.
Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth
hat all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea...
moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle')....
And Moby Dick for king!
Moby Dick is NOT a social disease!