It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
HERMAN MELVILLEArt is the objectification of feeling.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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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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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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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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