Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
HERMAN MELVILLELife’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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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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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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