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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Sunlight is painting.
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