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

Herman Melville

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Charity Myself Oneself Prejudice Thinking
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Knowledge Ourselves Reason Wisdom
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Horror Life Ocean Surround
Failure is the test of greatness.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Failure Greatness One Liner
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.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Mistake Set Sign Strength Talk Way Weakness
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Animal Interfere Man Money
Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Dishonor Himself Respect
We cannot live for ourselves alone.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Alone Live Nature Ourselves
A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Evidence Hard Himself Man Mouth Science Thinking True Understand
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Better Choice Drink Sleep Sober
My body is but the lees of my better being.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Better Body Myself
What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
HERMAN MELVILLE

Atheist Communication Kindness Men Principle Rule Thinking
There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Charming Comfortable Empty Sadness Unknown
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Gentle Hide Known Mystery Sea Soul Sweet Talk

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

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