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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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