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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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"Will and Will Power both are important, first is the WILL and then Power to Implement."

"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."

"Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself."

"In constant view keeps mightily true an honest resolve to do."

"You would rather opt for death than give up. Because, what a way to live a mediocre life by choice?"

"It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve."

"It was not in her nature to stop short at half-measures, not to pause when once she had fixed her purpose. If she ever trembled on looking forward to the utter ruin she was about to encounter, her second emotion was to despise herself for such pusillanimity, and to be roused to renewed energy."

"Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery."

"My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed."
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"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."

"Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own."

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

"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"

"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."

"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."

"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."
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