The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETrusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Sunlight is painting.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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