Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
HERMAN MELVILLEYou cannot hide the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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