Failure is the true test of greatness
HERMAN MELVILLEThe eyes are the gateway to the soul.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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