Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is not down in any map; true places never are.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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