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More Quotes by Herman Melville
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
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.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
