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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Words – 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 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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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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