The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
HERMAN MELVILLEThe sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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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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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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