Failure is the true test of greatness
HERMAN MELVILLEFailure is the test of greatness.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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