Herman Melville Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.

  Herman Melville

  Names, Oil, Water

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.53, Velvet Element Books

• A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.

  Herman Melville

  Military, Self, Monk

  Herman Melville (2016). “Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories”, p.190, Penguin

• Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.

  Herman Melville

  Selfish, Military, Men

  Herman Melville (1966). “Billy Budd”, p.14, Hayes Barton Press

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