There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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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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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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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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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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