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Better Quotes by Herman Melville
- Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.
- Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt…
- Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's…
- A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.
- It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure…
- It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
- Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
- There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think…
- Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.…
- But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than…
- My body is but the lees of my better being.
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