1 As a general rule, he can't amount to much in his totality.
2 Strong intuitions of the man assure the mariners he can be no innocent.
3 They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in.
4 Nor can piety itself, at such a shameful sight, completely stifle her upbraidings against the permitting stars.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 5 It can't last for ever, thank God, and his Ramadan only comes once a year; and I don't believe it's very punctual then.
6 I wonder, thought I, if this can possibly be a part of his Ramadan; do they fast on their hams that way in his native island.
7 It is quite as much as I can do to take care of myself, without taking care of ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and what not.
8 And this is the Bibliographical system here adopted; and it is the only one that can possibly succeed, for it alone is practicable.
9 I come to your house and want a bed; you tell me you can only give me half a one; that the other half belongs to a certain harpooneer.
10 Delight is to him, whom all the waves of the billows of the seas of the boisterous mob can never shake from this sure Keel of the Ages.
11 Remember what I say; BE kicked by him; account his kicks honours; and on no account kick back; for you can't help yourself, wise Stubb.
12 But I omit them as altogether obsolete; and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds, full of Leviathanism, but signifying nothing.
13 If you yourself can withstand three cheers at beholding these vivacious fish, then heaven help ye; the spirit of godly gamesomeness is not in ye.
14 In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
15 I can compare it to nothing but a large door mat, ornamented at the edges with little tinkling tags something like the stained porcupine quills round an Indian moccasin.
16 But as I was going to say, if thou wantest to know what whaling is, as thou tellest ye do, I can put ye in a way of finding it out before ye bind yourself to it, past backing out.
17 Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
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