We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
HERMAN MELVILLEThey talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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