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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Face Family Man Period True
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Beyond Happiness Patience Philosophy Pursue Yourself
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Earth Kind Man Spirit
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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Dedication Greatness Ideas Man Memories Monument Need Oneself Recognition Worth
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Beyond Creation Day Enjoyment Heart Immortal Love Thinking
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
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
What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Build Foundation Guilty Home Reality World
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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Change Greatness Intellectual Kind Man Stand
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Gratitude Hands Happiness Need Philosophy Satisfaction Seek
Sunlight is painting.
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Art Light One Liner Painting Sun
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Deep Fly One Liner Shadow Time
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
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
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Art Economics Friendship Religion Stranger
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Frame Heart Intellectual Mad

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

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