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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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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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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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