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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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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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