American - Novelist | August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
Herman Melville
HorseSpecialTouchHimForever
To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
One ThingThingAnotherOftentimes
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
ChildrenBestExcellenceAmericaShe
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
FaithHopeDeadSheHerEven
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.
GriefManBrainHandsSinMore
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
MenTroubleWillPoorDyingLittle
Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HabitAccomplishStrangeCannot
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
ImpossibleTalkWriteOpenWithout
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
ManJudgeGoBarWhereDoom
There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.
AmericaCriticsFiveThemHardly
There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
WorldDifferenceBeingPaidBetween
There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
MenNothingWillPaySomeSome Men
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