Failure is the true test of greatness
HERMAN MELVILLEThere are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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