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> [Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity. In his build he was a gladiator; in his humor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fitz-hugh-ludlow/porter-rockwell-was-that-most-terrible-instrument-that-can-be-handled/)

[Fitz Hugh Ludlow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fitz-hugh-ludlow/)

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## More by Fitz Hugh Ludlow

> [“There is reason to fear that men love better to investigate how muslins, hay-rakes, and, above all and inclusive of all, money may be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fitz-hugh-ludlow/there-is-reason-to-fear-that-men-love-better-to-investigate-how/)

[Fitz Hugh Ludlow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fitz-hugh-ludlow/)

> [“In absolute incommunicableness it stood apart, a thought, a system of thought which as yet had no symbol in spoken language”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fitz-hugh-ludlow/in-absolute-incommunicableness-it-stood-apart-a-thought-a-system-of/)

[Fitz Hugh Ludlow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fitz-hugh-ludlow/)

> [What we want, we have for our pains The promise that if we but wait Till the want has burned out of our brains,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fitz-hugh-ludlow/what-we-want-we-have-for-our-pains-the-promise-that-if-we-but-wait/)

[Fitz Hugh Ludlow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fitz-hugh-ludlow/)

> [ To a traveler paying his first visit, \[San Francisco\] has the interest of a new planet. It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fitz-hugh-ludlow/to-a-traveler-paying-his-first-visit-san-francisco-has-the-interest/)

[Fitz Hugh Ludlow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fitz-hugh-ludlow/)

> [Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fitz-hugh-ludlow/porter-rockwell-was-that-most-terrible-instrument-that-can-be-handled/)

[Fitz Hugh Ludlow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fitz-hugh-ludlow/)

> [“There are a thousand ways in which his neighbours can evaporate the essence which is all in all to him, while they at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fitz-hugh-ludlow/there-are-a-thousand-ways-in-which-his-neighbours-can-evaporate-the/)

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