Failure is the test of greatness.
HERMAN MELVILLESee how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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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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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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You cannot hide the soul.
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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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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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