Failure is the true test of greatness
HERMAN MELVILLEI am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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