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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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 something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

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