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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Appearance Letter Truth
Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Courage Happiness Philosophy Possession Release Wisdom Yourself
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Body Spiritual Symptom
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
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Accuracy Brother Honesty
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Arrival Dumb Himself Man Perfection Word
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Brutal Himself Man Rough Sensual
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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Black Body Death Heart Myself Politics
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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Cold Forget Man Memories Monument Oneself Sad
The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Philosophy Reflection River Spiritual Tree World
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Fools Greatness Hero Obstacle
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Fight Resolution Wrong
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Forest Marketing Place Talk
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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Description God Need Reality See Word
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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Congratulation Death Dreams Moments Trouble Wake Up
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Deep Hands Pure

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