Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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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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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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