1 Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.
2 I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or mine own.
3 His bald purplish head now looked for all the world like a mildewed skull.
4 And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
5 No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world.
6 Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.
7 They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company.
8 Delight is to him whose strong arms yet support him, when the ship of this base treacherous world has gone down beneath him.
9 See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse.
10 In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
11 For years he knows not the land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells like another world, more strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman.
12 On one side stood a long, low, shelf-like table covered with cracked glass cases, filled with dusty rarities gathered from this wide world's remotest nooks.
13 The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.
14 So I kindled the shavings; helped prop up the innocent little idol; offered him burnt biscuit with Queequeg; salamed before him twice or thrice; kissed his nose; and that done, we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences and all the world.
15 And thus have these naked Nantucketers, these sea hermits, issuing from their ant-hill in the sea, overrun and conquered the watery world like so many Alexanders; parcelling out among them the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland.
16 How now in the contemplative evening of his days, the pious Bildad reconciled these things in the reminiscence, I do not know; but it did not seem to concern him much, and very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another.
17 As we have seen, God came upon him in the whale, and swallowed him down to living gulfs of doom, and with swift slantings tore him along 'into the midst of the seas,' where the eddying depths sucked him ten thousand fathoms down, and 'the weeds were wrapped about his head,' and all the watery world of woe bowled over him.
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