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More Quotes by Herman Melville
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
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 who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.
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.