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"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."
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"Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery."
"What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it."
"My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed."
"You would rather opt for death than give up. Because, what a way to live a mediocre life by choice?"
"Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don't want to be a slave to external powers."
"In constant view keeps mightily true an honest resolve to do."
"Will and Will Power both are important, first is the WILL and then Power to Implement."
"Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself."
"Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair."
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"There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man."
"From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it."
"There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath..."
"Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I."
"For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books."
"Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending."
"Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep. Locks so grey did never grow but from out some ashes! But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise."
"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."
"Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod's gurgling track, pushed her on like giants' palms outspread. The strong, unstaggering breeze abounded so, that sky and air seemed vast outbellying sails; the whole world boomed before the wind. Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place; where his bayonet rays moved on in stacks. Emblazonings, as of crowned Babylonian kings and queens, reigned over everything. The sea was as a crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat."
"But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all."
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