I would sooner have bowel surgery in the woods with a stick.

Pride is really very simple. It is the attitude of the spoiled brat: “I want what I want when I want it, and if you say No to me, I hate you.” “Thy will be done” is the essential prayer of the saint; “my will be done” is the essential demand of the sinner.

Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When the ball of steel is rubbed away by the friction, eternity will not even have begun.

Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.

Written By Herman Melville

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