If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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Only the man who says no is free
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