Failure is the true test of greatness
HERMAN MELVILLEThe only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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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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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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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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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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