"Failure is the true test of greatness" — Herman Melville
"Failure is the true test of greatness"
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Herman Melville
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285 Quotes by Herman Melville
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any…
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To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my…
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter…
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He…
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a…
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He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies…
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from…
— Karen Armstrong
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
— Lance Armstrong
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a…
— Mary Kay Ash
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
— Paul Auster
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
— Charles Babbage
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get…
— Jensen Ackles
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger Babson
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not…
— Edward Bach
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People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't…
— Michele Bachmann
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