Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
HERMAN MELVILLEA book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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