Absolutes Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image “Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absolutes Accidents Fame Merit
If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement. — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit . — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work. — Adam Clayton Copy Share Image
Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well. — Ashley Olsen Copy Share Image
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
So many times we come to Jesus in worship and ask Him for things that He already IS and has already done... What a… — Christy Nockels Copy Share Image
Those are decisions only the Lord will make. I believe the love of God is absolute. He said he gave his son for the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered… — Huangbo Xiyun Copy Share Image