He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
HERMAN MELVILLEAs for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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