The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
HERMAN MELVILLEOld age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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