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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 Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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.
There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
