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More Quotes by Herman Melville
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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.
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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.
