Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
HERMAN MELVILLEThey talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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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.
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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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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