Failure is the test of greatness.
HERMAN MELVILLEA book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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