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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

Herman Melville

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Assumption Criticism Home Poor Warm
All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Deep Earth Effort Ground Herself Mindset Thinking
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Growth Love Oneself Prejudice See
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Knowledge Ourselves Reason Wisdom
The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Eyes One Liner Soul Way
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Horror Life Ocean Surround
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Animal Interfere Man Money
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dignity Leisure Life Success Talk Work
Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Dishonor Himself Respect
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Draw Map One Liner Place True
Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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Beyond Desire Event Fulfill Point Remedy
The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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Death Deep Herself Laws Life Nature Power
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Better Failure Limitation Original Success
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Animal Dog Help Ourselves Philosophy
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Mistake Set Sign Strength Talk Way Weakness
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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Break Forever Hope Loose Perish Soul Struggle

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