Herman Melville

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. ↗

— Herman Melville

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There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid. ↗

— Herman Melville

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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. ↗

— Herman Melville

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There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay. ↗

— Herman Melville

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There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. ↗

— Herman Melville

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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? ↗

— Herman Melville

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