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“For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.”

“Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.”

Men Death Turns Waiting Numbers Fate Imagine Conditions Sight Fellows Chains Each Day Without Hope

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.”

Men Country Death Fighting Knowing Ready Thousand Hundred Horse Fellows

Book:Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son

Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son

“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.”

Men Littles Death Poor Trouble Dying Ought Fellows Evermore

Book:Moby Dick

Source: Moby Dick

“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.”

Source: A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer

“The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.”

Men Life Death Spirituality Creatures Regard Fellows Meaningless Unfortunate Vegetarianism Meaninglessness Meaningless Life

Book:The World As I See It

Source: The World As I See It

“When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.”

Death Walks Feet Fellows Graves Circumspection

Book:A Cynic Looks at Life

Source: A Cynic Looks at Life

“The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?”

Doe Funny Death Fun Dying Difficulty Fellows

Book:The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence

Source: The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence

“The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.”

Source: More: Utopia