I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
HERMAN MELVILLEHonor lies in the mane of a horse.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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You cannot hide the soul.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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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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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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