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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

The eyes are the gateway to the soul.

Herman Melville
Eye, Soul, Vision

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Herman Melville
Hope, Struggle, Soul

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls.

Herman Melville
Soul, Body, May
1849 Redburn, ch.58.

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

Herman Melville
Sweet, Sea, Soul
Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.535, Velvet Element Books

Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

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Mother, Lying, Soul
Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.460

As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one's soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light.

Herman Melville
Creativity, Light, Soul
Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.327, Herman Melville

You cannot hide the soul.

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Soul
Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.52

Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.

Herman Melville
Soul, Body
Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.212

What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?

Herman Melville
Suicide, Men, Soul
Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.2511, Delphi Classics

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.

Herman Melville
Sea, Soul, Body
Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.391

Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself.

Herman Melville
Men, Space, Soul
Herman Melville (2016). “The Ambiguities”, p.476, Herman Melville

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

Herman Melville
Men, Soul, Mind
Herman Melville (2012). “Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.339, Jazzybee Verlag

For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.

Herman Melville
Men, Sea, Soul
Herman Melville (2015). “Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville”, p.295, 谷月社

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

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

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