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More Quotes by Herman Melville
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.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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.