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More Quotes by Herman Melville
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.
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.
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
