The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
HERMAN MELVILLESee how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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