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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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