They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
HERMAN MELVILLELet 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.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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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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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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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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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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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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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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