Failure is the test of greatness.
HERMAN MELVILLELife’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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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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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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 eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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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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