Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLEHe who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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