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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Eyes Fingers Philosophy Reality See Spiritual Touch True
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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Activity Evil Heart Human Life Philosophy
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Ordinary Poison Quiet Woman
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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Born Creation Death Heart Love Radiance Shine Sun World
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Art Economics Friendship Religion Stranger
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Body Spiritual Symptom
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Easy Happiness Limitation Man Sick World
Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Animal Happiness One Liner Philosophy Wisdom
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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Existence Fake False Himself Light Man Shadow True Universe
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Choice Happiness Pleasure
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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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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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Sunlight is painting.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

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