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"Vengeance on a dumb brute! that simply smote thee from blindest instinct!"

"Silence is the only Voice of our God."

"The great God absolute!"

"Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale!"

"He has the most fearful, madening beauty about him."

"It is the whale's accident to have a white hue."

"I feel as a prisoner in his own ship."

"The wind that fills a man's sail need not drive him into other men's ports."

"The secret source of his stubborness is fixed in his unreasoning rejection."

"Better rest and be thankful."

"Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest."

"Why this striving and this strife of the chase? why weary and palsy oneself on such a pilgrimage?"

"God, God is against thee, old man."

"Ahab never thinks; he only feels, acts."

"O, she is too noble a ship to be left thus, she is too brave a thing!"

"Man's v-way is paved with bricks of his own baking."

"I am bound to that man by cords woven of my very heartstrings."

"Aye, aye! and that sort of watery world we live in."

"There seems to be some sort of solemn satisfaction in it."

"I am bound to him by cords woven with my life-line into his life."

"I try the plane upon the little goddess of his nether parts"

"Aye, aye, and further aft, the aftercastle full of old ivory"

"This is the only life I can lead"

"I am bound to him by cords woven of my very heartstrings"

"A whale is never truly conquered only temporarily detained"

"There is a madness to the pursuit of the white whale"

"I am bound to that man by a bond which I can neither break nor explain."

"To be enraged with you is as bad as drinking salt water."

"To attack the white whale is to attack the very fabric of creation."

"The whale knows more than we can ever comprehend."