“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.” — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Tag: Herman Melville
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“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.” — Herman Melville, Billy Budd
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“It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville, “Hawthorne and His Mosses,” The Literary World (24 August 1850)
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“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.” — Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street
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“Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence.” — Herman Melville, Letter to Catherine G. Lansing (5 September 1877)
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“It is — or seems to be — a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them.” — Herman Melville, Letter to Samuel Savage (1851-08-24)
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“Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows.” — Herman Melville, Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne (November 1851)
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