Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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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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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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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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 inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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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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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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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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