It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
HERMAN MELVILLEThou 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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