The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
HERMAN MELVILLEFailure is the true test of greatness
More Herman Melville Quotes
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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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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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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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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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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