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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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Activity Evil Heart Human Life Philosophy
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Inspirational Mindset Power Thinking Yourself
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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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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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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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