I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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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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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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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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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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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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