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More Quotes by Herman Melville
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
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.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.