Failure is the test of greatness.
HERMAN MELVILLETis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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