Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere 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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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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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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