It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
HERMAN MELVILLEMeditation and water are wedded for ever.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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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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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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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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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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