The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
HERMAN MELVILLESilence is the only Voice of our God.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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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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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Only the man who says no is free
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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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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