Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
HERMAN MELVILLEA smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Only the man who says no is free
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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