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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Calm Distance Right True View
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Earth Monument Mountain Nature One Liner
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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Commitment Entertainment Fortune Ideas Murder Person Suicide
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Deep Hate Love Observation Subject Wisdom
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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Ability Greatness Happiness Man Moral
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Ordinary Poison Quiet Woman
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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Hands Heart Man Passion Win Woman
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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Change Greatness Intellectual Kind Man Stand
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Deep Fly One Liner Shadow Time
Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Divine Holy Pure Salt White
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Fools Greatness Hero Obstacle
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Arrival Dumb Himself Man Perfection Word
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Choice Happiness Pleasure
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Accuracy Brother Honesty
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

Change Deep Dreams Evil Fashion Heart Place Revolution Secret Soul World
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Brutal Himself Man Rough Sensual

The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

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