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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

Herman Melville
Running, Iron, Soul
Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.161

Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!

Herman Melville
Running, Heart, Iron
Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.161

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

Herman Melville
Running, Hands, Circles
"Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1850)

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

Herman Melville
Beauty, Running, Tranquility
Herman Melville (2017). “The Complete Works of Herman Melville: Adventure Classics, Sea Tales, Philosophical Works, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, John Marr and Other Sailors…”, p.2763, e-artnow

Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

Herman Melville
Running, Men, Glowing
Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.127, Velvet Element Books

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