A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEArticulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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