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Results from Cole's Quotables:

He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

Results from Poor Man's College:

Where does the violet tint end and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blending enter into the other. So with sanity and insanity.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

Results from Contributed Quotations:

To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
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 (1819 - 1891), Billy Budd, Sailor
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at our own table.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), Moby Dick
Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), Moby Dick
I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), Moby Dick (Captain Ahab)
For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), Moby Dick
He's a grand, ungodly, god-like man.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), Moby Dick

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