Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLEAll 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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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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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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