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More Quotes by Herman Melville
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.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
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.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
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.
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.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
