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If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

Herman Melville
Prayer, Men, Might
Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.7

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

Herman Melville
Prayer, Soul, Draws
Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.34

Father Mapple paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

Herman Melville
Prayer, Father, Eye
"Moby Dick".

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