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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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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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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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