Herman melville
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
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Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.
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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?
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There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
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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.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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