Failure is the test of greatness.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot hide the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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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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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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