The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
HERMAN MELVILLELet us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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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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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Failure is the true 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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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