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More Quotes by Herman Melville
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
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.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.