Frases de Herman Melville
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Herman Melville foi um escritor, poeta e ensaísta estadunidense. Embora tenha obtido grande sucesso no início de sua carreira, sua popularidade foi decaindo ao longo dos anos. Faleceu quase completamente esquecido, sem conhecer o sucesso que sua mais importante obra, o romance Moby Dick, alcançaria no século XX. O livro, dividido em três volumes, foi publicado em 1851 com o título de A baleia e não obteve sucesso de crítica, tendo sido considerado o principal motivo para o declínio da carreira do autor. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Agosto 1818 – 28. Setembro 1891
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“Neste mundo, companheiros, o pecado que paga seu percurso pode viajar livremente, mesmo sem passaporte; enquanto a virtude, como uma pobre, é detida em todas as fronteiras.”

Variante: Neste mundo, o pecado que paga a passagem pode viajar tranquilamente e sem passaporte, enquanto que a virtude em um pobre é detida em todas as fronteiras.
Fonte: Moby Dick

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Herman Melville: Frases em inglês

“In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.”

Herman Melville livro Benito Cereno

Benito Cereno, Putnam's Monthly ( October 1855 http://books.google.com/books?id=TlYAAAAAYAAJ&q=%22In+armies+navies+cities+or+families+in+nature+herself+nothing+more+relaxes+good+order+than+misery%22&pg=PA356#v=onepage)

“Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.”

Herman Melville livro White-Jacket

Fonte: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 7

“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.”

Herman Melville livro Bartleby, o Escrivão

Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)

“In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, — even though it be covertly, and by snatches.”

Since at least 1954 this has also been published at times as "Truth is forced to fly like a sacred white doe…", apparently a typographical error.
Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)

“Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.”

Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 1851); published in Memories of Hawthorne (1897) by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, p. 158

“And do not think, my boy, that because I, impulsively broke forth in jubillations over Shakspeare, that, therefore, I am of the number of the snobs who burn their tuns of rancid fat at his shrine. No, I would stand afar off & alone, & burn some pure Palm oil, the product of some overtopping trunk.”

I would to God Shakspeare had lived later, & promenaded in Broadway. Not that I might have had the pleasure of leaving my card for him at the Astor, or made merry with him over a bowl of the fine Duyckinck punch; but that the muzzle which all men wore on their soul in the Elizebethan day, might not have intercepted Shakspers full articulations. For I hold it a verity, that even Shakspeare, was not a frank man to the uttermost. And, indeed, who in this intolerant universe is, or can be? But the Declaration of Independence makes a difference.—There, I have driven my horse so hard that I have made my inn before sundown.
Letter to Evert Augustus Duyckinck (3 March 1849); published in The Letters of Herman Melville (1960) edited by Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman, p. 79

“The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth?”

Because one did survive the wreck.
Epilogue
Moby-Dick: or, the Whale (1851)