Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLE
Nature is nobody’s ally.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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 sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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