Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
HERMAN MELVILLEThere are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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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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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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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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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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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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Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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