They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
HERMAN MELVILLEHe who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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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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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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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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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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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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