Herman Melville Quotes
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
Herman Melville
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Author Details:
Type:
Novelist Quotes
Category:
American Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 1, 1819
Date of Death:
September 28, 1891
Nationality:
American
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Select Herman Melville Quotations:
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville
Truth is in things, and not in words.
Herman Melville
There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
Herman Melville
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
Herman Melville
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
Herman Melville
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
Herman Melville
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All Herman Melville Quotations:
A man thinks that by mouthing...
A smile is the chosen vehicle...
A whale ship was my Yale...
Art is the objectification of feeling.
At sea a fellow comes out...
Better sleep with a sober cannibal...
Better to sleep with a sober...
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among...
Friendship at first sight, like love...
He piled upon the whale's white...
He who has never failed somewhere...
Heaven have mercy on us all...
Hope is the struggle of the...
I am, as I am; whether...
In this world, shipmates, sin that...
Is there some principal of nature...
It is better to fail in...
It is impossible to talk or...
It is not down in any...
Know, thou, that the lines that...
Let America first praise mediocrity even...
Let us speak, though we show...
Old age is always wakeful; as...
Some dying men are the most...
The march of conquest through wild...
There are certain queer times and...
There are hardly five critics in...
There are some enterprises in which...
There are some persons in this...
There are times when even the...
There is a touch of divinity...
There is all of the difference...
There is no dignity in wickedness...
There is no quality in this...
There is nothing namable but that...
There is one knows not what...
There is something wrong about the...
There is sorrow in the world...
They talk of the dignity of...
To be called one thing, is...
To be hated cordially, is only...
To know how to grow old...
To produce a mighty book, you...
To the last, I grapple with...
Toil is man's allotment; toil of...
Truth is in things, and not...
Truth is the silliest thing under...
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have...
We cannot live only for ourselves...
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid...
Where do murderers go, man! Who's...
Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot...
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