You cannot hide the soul.
HERMAN MELVILLEThey talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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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.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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