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• None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives.
  All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville...
• But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
  He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great....
• I try all things; I achieve what I can. -- Herman Melville
• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
  With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do....
• A hard man is good to find.
• A mighty work deserves a mighty theme. -- Herman Melville
• Some things, they're hard to say.