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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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Black Body Death Heart Myself Politics
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People World
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
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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Face Family Man Period True
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Man Measurement Wisdom
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
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Fashion Happiness Love Rest
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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Autumn Day Endurance Home Light Myself Shine Stay Sun Time
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Brutal Himself Man Rough Sensual
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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Hands Heart Man Passion Win Woman
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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Cold Forget Man Memories Monument Oneself Sad
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Agony Heart Illusion Laughter Myself Pain Reality
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Description God Need Reality See Word
When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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Earth Heaven Nature Region Transformation
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Gratitude Hands Happiness Need Philosophy Satisfaction Seek

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