Failure is the true test of greatness
HERMAN MELVILLEI cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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