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More Quotes by Herman Melville
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
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.
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.
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.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.