See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
HERMAN MELVILLEAll 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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