They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
HERMAN MELVILLEThou 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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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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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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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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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Failure is the true test of greatness
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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.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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