It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
HERMAN MELVILLEAn utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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