It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. -Herman Melville

 

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


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This quote is just one of 24 total Herman Melville quotes in our collection. Herman Melville is known for saying 'It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.' as well as some of the following quotes.

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.

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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Herman Melville

Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.

Herman Melville

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.

Herman Melville

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville