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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Appearance Friendship Man Recognition Trust
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
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
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Appearance Letter Truth
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Environment Hero World
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Dreams Happiness Leadership Philosophy Possible Pursuit Wild Wisdom World
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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Ability Greatness Happiness Man Moral
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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Body Spiritual Symptom
Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Divine Holy Pure Salt White
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Forest Marketing Place Talk
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Atmosphere Book Page Reading See Shine Sun Writing
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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Affection Battle Brave Life Man Physical
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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Born Creation Death Heart Love Radiance Shine Sun World
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Existence Fake False Himself Light Man Shadow True Universe
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Brutal Himself Man Rough Sensual

A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.

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