There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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