What did Herman Melville mean by: Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow. - Herman Melville Author · USA Copy
+ As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Ships, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Past, Textbooks, Tyrants, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Ambitious, Disease, Greatness, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Baggage, Devil, Thunder, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Edges, Literature, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Christian, Drinking, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Laughing, Pessimism, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Sleep, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
When book and reader’s furrowed brow meet, it isn’t always the book that’s stupid. - William H. Gass Writer · USA
Fate’s sentence written on the brow no hand can e’er efface. - Bhartrhari Philosopher and grammarian · India
