"Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or……" — Herman Melville
"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."
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285 Quotes by Herman Melville
Herman Melville has 285 quotes on this site.
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any…
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To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my…
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter…
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He…
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a…
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He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies…
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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More Allotment Quotes
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Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am…
— Robert Breault
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This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to…
— Pope Pius XI
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Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other…
— Hjalmar Schacht
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Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and…
— Robin Boyd
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We have a funny concept of time in this culture. We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely…
— Jan Phillips
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Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will…
— Frederick Lenz
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As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that…
— Norman Maclean
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. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the…
— Erik Larson
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Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose…
— Erik Larson
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