More Quotes by Herman Melville
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
