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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

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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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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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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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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