We cannot live for ourselves alone.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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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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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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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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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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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