Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

Quote by H P Lovecraft

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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth...

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth...

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, yet with stranger aeons, even Death may...

That is not dead which can eternal lie, yet with stranger aeons, even Death may...

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is...

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is...

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire...

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire...

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is...

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is...

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those...

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those...

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams...

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams...

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing...

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing...

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all...

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all...

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an...

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an...

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which...

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which...

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a...

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a...

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of...

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of...

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to...

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to...

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What...

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What...

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.