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?
HERMAN MELVILLEHe who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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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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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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