To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
HERMAN MELVILLETo produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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