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Small Quotes by Herman Melville
- When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits…
- And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real…
- For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever…
- 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…
- truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what…
- 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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