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.
HERMAN MELVILLEHope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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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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