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It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. ↗

— Herman Melville

#helplessly #impossible #oneself #open #talk

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

— Herman Melville

#between #difference #paid #paying #world

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

— Herman Melville

#exists #itself #merely #nothing #quality

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

#either #grief #hands #idleness #man

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

— Herman Melville

#eternity #her #hope #loose #perishable

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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Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow. ↗

— Herman Melville

#know #lines #live #out #thou

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. ↗

— Herman Melville

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There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man. ↗

— Herman Melville

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To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another. ↗

— Herman Melville

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