I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
HERMAN MELVILLEAll deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Only the man who says no is free
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