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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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