Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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I 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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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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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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Only the man who says no is free
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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