Failure is the test of greatness.
HERMAN MELVILLETo know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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