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More Quotes by Herman Melville
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
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 path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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.
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.
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.