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Great Quotes by Herman Melville
- Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have…
- 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…
- 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 upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices…
- People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.
- To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
- He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
- To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many…
- Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed…
- Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in…
- It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
- Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an…
- It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and…
- He who has never failed somewhere, that man can notbe great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual…
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