It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
HERMAN MELVILLEMan is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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