"Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest……" — Herman Melville

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This quote is filed under Deaden Quotes, one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your… — D. H. Lawrence
• In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an… — John O'Donohue
• To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others. — Max Lerner
• Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe… — Billy Graham
• What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and… — Alvin R. Dyer
• About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I… — Terry Kath
• The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the… — John Dewey
• Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. — Stephen Grosz
• It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world… — John O'Donohue
• A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is… — Pope Benedict XVI
• Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they… — Louis MacNeice
• Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be… — Agnes Smedley

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