We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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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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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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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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