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More Quotes by Herman Melville
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
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.
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.
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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.
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