We cannot live for ourselves alone.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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You cannot hide the soul.
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