The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
HERMAN MELVILLEAid my disillusionment, my friend!
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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