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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

Herman Melville

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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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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 eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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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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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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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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