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7 Quotes for 'Herman Melville' in the Database.

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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Topic: Cliches and One-Liners
Source: None
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.
Topic: Leisure
Source: None
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Topic: Literature
Source: None
But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.
Topic: Selfawareness
Source: None
He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
Topic: Society
Source: None

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