The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
HERMAN MELVILLEFailure is the true test of greatness
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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