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More Quotes by Herman Melville
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.
