What a lovely day again! were it a new-made world, and made for a summer-house to the angels, and this morning the first of its throwing open to them… - Herman Melville

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What a lovely day again! were it a new-made world, and made for a summer-house to the angels, and this morning the first of its throwing open to them, a fairer day could not dawn upon that world. Here’s food for thought, had Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels; THAT’S tingling enough for mortal man! to think’s audacity. God only has that right and privilege. Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

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About Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1 August 1819 – 28 September 1891) was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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وكلما ازددتُ تأملا في هذا الذنـَب الجبار زاد أسفي لعجزي عن وصفه. فله في بعض الأحيان حركات وإيماءات صوفية لا تـُفسًّر، وإن الحوت حقا يتحدث بهذه الوسائل إلى الكون في ذكاء وفطنة. وحركات الحوت كلها حافلة بالغرابة، فكيفما أخذتـُه بالتحليل والتشريح لم أتجاوز في العمق سُمك بشرته! فأنا أجهله وسأظل أجهله أبدا. وإذا لم أعرف حتى ذنـَبه فكيف أفهم رأسه؟ ثم – وهذا أبلغ – كيف أدرك وجهه حين لا يكون له وجه؟ ويبدو لي أنه يقول: سترى أجزائي الخلفية، سترى ذنـَبي، أما وجهي فلن تراه! ولكني لا أستطيع أن أستبين أجزاءه الخلفية تمام الاستبانة، ومهما يقل هو عن وجهه فإني أقول ثانية أنه لا وجه له.

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space. Wonder interlocks with wonder; and then the confounding feeling comes. No cause have we to fancy, that a horse, a dog, a fowl, ever stand transfixed beneath yon skyey load of majesty. But our soul's arches underfit into its; and so, prevent the upper arch from falling on us with unsustainable inscrutableness.

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