A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIf 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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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