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More Quotes by Herman Melville
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.