I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLEFame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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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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