The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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