Quote 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. – Herman Melville

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

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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. – Herman Melville

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Faith
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. – Herman Melville

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They lard their lean books with the fat of others work. – Sir Richard Francis Burton

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Nothing is said which has not been said before. – Terence

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There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him. – Benjamin Franklin

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The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals… is the plagiarism of ourselves. – Marcel Proust

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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy — the mother. – Claudette Colbert

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Not to understand a treasure’s worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is. – William Cowper

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One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a mans laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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