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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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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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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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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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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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