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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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