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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Herman Melville

Inspirational, Learning, Knowledge

Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.296, Northwestern University Press

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Herman Melville

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Herman Melville

Inspirational, Art, Feelings

"Mind, An Essay on Human Feeling,". Book by Susanne Katherina Langer, vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 4, 1967.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Herman Melville

Inspirational, Christian, Drinking

Moby Dick ch. 3 (1851)

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

Herman Melville

Inspirational, Strength, Beautiful

Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.354

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Herman Melville

Inspirational, Life, Travel

Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.12

Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

Herman Melville

Inspirational, Funny, Years

Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.1, Velvet Element Books

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.

Herman Melville

Inspirational, Eagles, Space

Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.473, Velvet Element Books