Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
HERMAN MELVILLEIt is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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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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Failure is the test of greatness.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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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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Only the man who says no is free
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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