We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere 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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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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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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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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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