We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENo 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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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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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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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