There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.
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From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.Herman Melville
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
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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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With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, though readily enough he could hide it apprehending the good, but powerless to be it a nature like Claggart's surcharged with energy as such natures almost invariably are, what recourse is left to it but to recoil upon itself and like the scorpion for which the Creator alone is responsible, act out to the end the part allotted it.
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