Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEA thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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