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More Quotes by Herman Melville
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.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
