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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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