Failure is the true test of greatness
HERMAN MELVILLEMeditation and water are wedded for ever.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Only the man who says no is free
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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