Failure is the true test of greatness
HERMAN MELVILLEGenius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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