I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
HERMAN MELVILLEFailure is the true test of greatness
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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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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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Only the man who says no is free
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