The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
HERMAN MELVILLEThinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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