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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. ↗

— Herman Melville

#choose #enduring #ever #flea #great

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things. ↗

— Herman Melville

#brings #doing #fortune #things #whatever

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. ↗

— Herman Melville

#church #clergyman #get #go #heavens

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. ↗

— Herman Melville

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. ↗

— Herman Melville

#great #man #never #somewhere #who

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. ↗

— Herman Melville

#helplessly #impossible #oneself #open #talk

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. ↗

— Herman Melville

#enterprises #method #some #true #which

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid. ↗

— Herman Melville

#between #difference #paid #paying #world

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. ↗

— Herman Melville

#exists #itself #merely #nothing #quality

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? ↗

— Herman Melville

#know #nature #never #principal #quality