This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWords – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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 singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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