He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor.
("Moby-Dick")
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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.
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Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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