It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
HERMAN MELVILLEI cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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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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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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