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More Quotes by Herman Melville
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.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
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
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
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.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.