He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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You cannot hide the soul.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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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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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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