It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is not down in any map; true places never are.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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