Failure is the test of greatness.
HERMAN MELVILLENo philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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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 to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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