Famous Quotes | Oh! thou clear spirit of clear...
Oh! thou clear spirit of clear fire, whom on these seas I as Persian once did worship, till in the sacramental act so burned by thee, that to this hour I bear the scar; I now know thee, thou clear spirit, and I now know that thy right worship is defiance. To neither love nor reverence wilt thou be kind; and e’en for hate thou canst but kill; and all are killed. No fearless fool now fronts thee.
- Herman Melville
Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Captain Ahab, in Moby Dick, ch. 119 (1851).
Categories: Author, Fire
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