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More Quotes by Herman Melville
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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.
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.