To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
HERMAN MELVILLEIn a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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