The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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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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