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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

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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Earth Kind Man Spirit
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Appearance Friendship Man Recognition Trust
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Darkness Heart Oneself
I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Description God Need Reality See Word
Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Dreams Strange Truth
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Appearance Letter Truth
There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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Frame Heart Intellectual Mad
Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Divine Holy Pure Salt White
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People 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
Sunlight is painting.
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Art Light One Liner Painting Sun
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Man Measurement Wisdom
Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Deep Fly One Liner Shadow Time
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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Earth Heaven Nature Region Transformation
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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Cold Forget Man Memories Monument Oneself Sad
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Easy Effort Hard Hard Work One Liner Poet Reading Writing
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Dreams Moments Ourselves Sleep Wake Up
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Fight Resolution Wrong
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Forest Marketing Place Talk
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Accuracy Brother Honesty
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
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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Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Fashion Happiness Love Rest
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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One Liner True

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